The design narrative in design learning: Adjusting the inertia of attention and enhancing design integrity

Abstract This paper aims to guide students to adjust their attention by designing narratives and exploring the habitual ways in students’ narratives; the impact of narrative integration on students’ overall design. This study was a classroom experiment. We found that students would focus on specific areas in the narrative expression; there was a fixed attention pattern, the results of narrative expression were more affluent and diverse, and they could pay attention to content that was easy to ignore. The results of students’ performance after design narrative training show that narrative training can effectively enhance students’ attention to the key points that should be included in the design, with details and emotional content that we tend to ignore.