NK_NM_Hybrid Digital-Physical Hardware Design for Designing and Enhancing User Experiences

This paper and poster presentation showcase a new research-driven interface and design tool that could transform architectural education. The process uses mixed-methods research design to investigate ways of integrating a hybrid digital-analogue hardware protocol platform known as No Keyboard, No Mouse (NK-NM) into the design studio context. The study examines the influence of the NK-NM platform on pedagogy, research integration, user experience, and aesthetics. It also documents its initial impact as part of a simulation-based feedback loop to iteratively explicate design artifacts. NK-NM advances emerging design tool development research by extending and reshaping design as a thinking medium rather than merely as a process. By emphasizing design strategy and pedagogical planning, this study produced unexpected and unforeseeable outcomes as well as demonstrated enhanced creativity in non-designers, and both novice and expert designers.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2