Category: pace layers

Pace Layers provide a useful framework for understanding why interaction design evolves at different speeds throughout a product’s lifecycle. Fast-changing layers—such as visual style, UI trends, and microinteractions—can...

How do Pace Layers affect the lifecycle of interaction design work? Pace Layers is a helpful way to understand how interaction design evolves. At the surface, we have elements that change every day, like UI styles and...

Pace Layers affect the lifecycle of interaction design work by showing that different parts of a product change at different speeds, and designers have to work with that instead of against it. The fast layers—like trends,...

Pace Layers divides a system into changeable layers, meaning that changes to some layers will impact the design in the long run. For example, culture and people's habits change slowly, thus influencing the long-term direction of...

When I think about Pace Layers, I think about how they help me as an Interaction Design student understand why different parts of my project might move at different speeds. Some decisions change really easily with little...

Pace Layering provides a productive analytical lens for understanding how interaction design work unfolds over time. Rather than framing the world as a strict hierarchy, the Pace Layers model clarifies how different rhythms of...

After learning about the system, the concept of pace layers just makes sense. In a self-regulating system, different layers move through time at different speeds. Take our bodies, for example. Different parts have their own...

Pace Layers are an illustration of the pace at which pieces of a system develop and change. Fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, and nature are the layers in order of fastest to slowest to change.  In...

Pace Layers give designers a clear way to understand how some parts of Interaction Design were able to rapidly evolve, while others remain stagnant. Stewart Brand mentions fashion and commerce layers which dictate the rapid...

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