Grading in interaction design education using design practitioners' conceptions of process quality

► Interviewed interaction designers saw a good design process as methodical and managed within constraints. ► An even better design process was seen as having a thought-through rationale. ► Ideally, the design process should be inspirational. ► Conceptions that designers have of process quality can be used as grading criteria in education. ► Students can understand such criteria, and teachers can apply them reliably.