Embodiment

Technology design should focus less on how to move things more efficiently and more on how to make the right local connections that would have gone unrecognized otherwise.

The cognitivist frame, one that separates representation from action, has shaped the design of computer technologies. Embodied interaction is an alternative perspective that prioritizes our interaction with the real, everyday world as the site of meaningful experiences with technology.

Users build the intentional relationships between objects through use, not the designer. Instead of planning for specific scenarios of use, designers should consider how an object is made available for appropriation and adaptation.

Technology can represent information, but it also embedded in the world and practices of the people who use it. When designing, consider the information that is not carried directly by the technology, but communicated through its use.

Phenomenology has some useful philosophical ideas for design, but some can also come off as confusing and alienating. So, take the parts that are useful (the focus on lived, human experience of the world as starting point) and drop the rest of the baggage that comes with it.