Learning Outcomes
Understand:
- The names for concepts used in theoretical design papers are tools – shorthands for definitions, and referring back to previous writings
- Standard linear design and development processes, even though attractive from a planning point of view, constrain design too much.
- The approach to design discussed here is only one of many possible approaches
- Design – and understanding users and context of use – is fundamentally an iterative process.
- User needs and experiences evolve as they interact with a design proposition / probe
Remember:
- wicked problem
- memoranda
- beneficiaries versus anyficiaries
- relationship between memoranda and artefact
Apply:
- Stop seeing user requirements and user research as a fundamentally separate stage of enquiry
Outline
- Apply the theory in Gilbert Cockton’s paper to the field of self-tracking and activity tracking.
- Clarify problems with understanding concepts in the paper.
Slides
PDF of the Slides: S01.2NotesPDF [360 KB]