Designing an E-learning platform for the Aflatoun Academy

Nowadays, E- learning has became an realistic education alternative to everyone with an internet connection. It is not only about learning, it is also about online socializing, communication and personalizing. There is no teacher and classroom, students have more freedom of time and location. The use of multi-media and ICT (information...

Emotion deep dive for designers: Seven propositions that operationalize emotions in design innovation

This paper presents a five-day intense course that teaches “emotion-driven design”<br/>(EDD) to graduate students with a broad variety of disciplinary backgrounds at the<br/>Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. We introduce seven principles<br/>drawn from design-relevant emotion knowledge that informed the design of the<br/>course’s...

Demystifying emotion for designers: A five-day course based on seven fundamental principles

This paper introduces a five-day intensive course, conducted over five years from 2018 to 2022, aimed at teaching emotion-driven design (EDD) to graduate students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds at Beijing Normal University. EDD is the practice of designing products or services that are informed by user or consumer emotions and/or aim to...

Cultivating Researcher-Sensibility in Novice Designers: Exploring Genre-Specific Heuristics for Game Evaluation in a Design Studio

This paper presents an eight-day design studio that teaches heuristic evaluation of games to third-year bachelor students at the School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology. Through this course, students gain the first-hand experiences of developing heuristics for games through online survey and using them in idea generation...