Desired affordances and appropriate product semantics are important when considering products that are easy to use and easy to understand. Despite affordances and product semantics being taught in ...some design educations, many designers in industry do not explicitly consider affordances nor product semantics during the design process. This is partly due to the lack of a framework that supports the considerations for affordances and product semantics during the design process. As a consequence, many designers rely on their own intuition, and this can be problematic. To avoid the potential negative effects of relying on intuition, we designed a framework to support the designer in explicitly considering affordances and applying product semantics during product design. This framework was used by undergraduate students in product design engineering during a 12-week product design assignment. In this paper we present the framework, examples of how it was used and how it was evaluated by the students. We finally discuss the findings within the context of design for meaning and project-based learning.
In 1856 John Lees left his home in Oldham, Lancashire, for the Australasian goldfields. This, however, was not his first departure from home. In 1847 Lees travelled to London, Hull, Birmingham and ...York when the contraction of Oldham’s cotton and engineering industries, in which his family was involved, induced him to seek employment elsewhere in England. By 1852 Lees was living in London, from where he migrated to Victoria for the first time with two brothers also from Oldham, Daniel and John Evans. The three went out to join Lees’ brother, James, who had rushed to the diggings in the
‘Monuments of Industry’? Davy, Daniel
Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World,
04/2021
Book Chapter
In May 1911, fifty years after Gabriel Read’s discovery of gold that sparked the Otago gold rushes, Gabriel’s Gully was once again teeming with life. A few days before the commencement of the ...Gabriel’s Gully Semi-Centennial Jubilee, the Lawrence correspondent for the Otago Daily Times remarked that ‘the old gully, now almost silent and deserted, is to ring with voices of old miners who half a century ago swept into it from regions beyond, and tore at its bosom for the gold that lay concealed beneath’.¹ Over three hundred gold seekers, who in 1861 first dug for riches in Tuapeka’s
Work and Environments Davy, Daniel
Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World,
04/2021
Book Chapter
In an essay charting the trans-Tasman connections between Otago and Victoria during the nineteenth century, Erik Olssen astutely notes that ‘those who came to New Zealand often had the benefit of ...Australian experience and usually tried to learn from Australian mistakes’.¹ Olssen’s comment is confirmed by the previous chapter, which explored the various ways in which the Otago rushes grew out of the Victorian rushes of the previous decade and remained connected to Victoria throughout their course. While acknowledging these origins and connections, it is important to recognise that the Otago gold rushes were not simply appendages of the Victorian
In 1852, at the age of thirteen, John Henry Watmuff and his father, Steven Watmuff, left their home in Adelaide, Australia, to join the rush to the Bendigo goldfield. The two were moderately ...successful at gold digging, and they were able to finance Steven’s return to England in 1859 to protect the family’s inheritance. Meanwhile, John Henry continued to support their family in Adelaide through gold seeking in Victoria. When news of the Otago gold rushes reached Melbourne in 1861, his younger brother, Ned, joined the throng of diggers leaving Victoria for the new diggings. When John Henry received glowing
Leisure Sites and Cultures Davy, Daniel
Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World,
04/2021
Book Chapter
In the midst of trials and tribulations, aching muscles and blistered feet, gold seekers always found time for leisure. For most, leisure stood in binary opposition to work. There was a clear ...beginning and end to the workday, and Sunday was always looked forward to as a time of relaxation and rejuvenation. Diggers who worked together for ten hours a day would spend their downtime together, relaxing at their camp or in a local public house.
All gold seekers sought diversion from their work, and yet work on the goldfields never truly ended. When the Industrial Revolution in Britain and
We Return Home in Glory Davy, Daniel
Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World,
04/2021
Book Chapter
The Chinese in nineteenth-century New Zealand are often neglected by historians as marginal participants in a national history centred on Māori–Pakeha relations. Although the histories of the New ...Zealand gold rushes decentre this bi-national narrative, they rarely yield greater acknowledgement of Chinese prospectors. Miles Fairburn and Jock Phillips construct their narratives of gold rush societies without reference to the Chinese. They also do not analyse the ways in which European colonial identities were shaped by engagements with Chinese prospectors on the goldfields.¹ Studies that discuss the Chinese in Otago also rarely take Chinese perspectives seriously, typically focusing instead on
