School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Appl Ergon. 2013 Jan;44(1):65-72. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2012.04.011. Epub 2012 May 26.
This study investigated the practices and attitudes of novice designers toward user involvement in public symbol design at the conceptual design stage, i.e. the stereotype production method. Differences between male and female novice designers were examined. Forty-eight novice designers (24 male, 24 female) were asked to design public symbol referents based on suggestions made by a group of users in a previous study and provide feedback with regard to the design process. The novice designers were receptive to the adoption of user suggestions in the conception of the design, but tended to modify the pictorial representations generated by the users to varying extents. It is also significant that the male and female novice designers appeared to emphasize different aspects of user suggestions, and the female novice designers were more positive toward these suggestions than their male counterparts. The findings should aid the optimization of the stereotype production method for user-involved symbol design.
本研究调查了新手设计师在公共符号设计概念设计阶段（即刻板印象生成方法）中对用户参与的实践和态度，考察了男女新手设计师之间的差异。要求 48 名新手设计师（24 名男性，24 名女性）根据之前研究中一组用户的建议设计公共符号参考，并就设计过程提供反馈。新手设计师乐于在设计构思中采纳用户建议，但往往会在不同程度上修改用户生成的图形表示。同样重要的是，男性和女性新手设计师似乎强调用户建议的不同方面，女性新手设计师比男性新手设计师对这些建议更为积极。这些发现应该有助于优化用户参与的符号设计的刻板印象生成方法。
