The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Interaction Design
Image: Picture from the Sound of Music; the rest is from my own old college analysis of quasar spectra.
I’ve done a large amount of careful quantitative research, factor analysis, dimensional decomposition, interviews, focus groups, cluster detection and mapping and and so on and so forth [I’m not showing the slides I had for these. Complex diagrams, mainly].
And it turns out there are 7 important parameters or features to take into account in the interaction design as it pertains to products…
...which can be mapped directly to the Von Trapp children.
I know, I know, I’m as surprised as you!
I was rather shocked, as you may also be, to find that Captain Von Trapp has seven children. Seven! He’s a sea captain. That means he’s away at sea the whole time! Where did he ever get the time? Well. We won’t consider the possibilities.
Anyway. The seven Von Trapp children representing different important patterns in experience.