The first step of our process will be for you to get familiar with the design context: you’ll engage in auto-ethnography, reflect on your studio experiences, you’ll highlight pain points, collaboratively brainstorm as a class, and identify a set of precedent projects to inform your approach. You’ll do this as an entire class so you’ve got a shared understanding of the problem space and a set of shared resources for this exploration.
By the end of this exercise, students will:
have conducted rapid design research to explore the design contextof the studio
have collectively enumerated issues, challenges and pain points to attend to during the design process and required to deliver connected experiences that create value
have increased their ability to understand the range of socio-technical considerations that create meaningful, valuable internet appliances in this design context
Each person should conduct some quick and lightweight ‘autobiographical’ design research; or more simply put, observe your own experiences, tasks and behaviors in the design studio over the next few days.
As you use the studio reflect on observations, obstacles, or pain points and post-up them up in-situ. Literally annotate the space with design opportunities. If you agree with a pain point, add a dot to it (and we’ll use this to collectively visualize their importance).
You should add 3-5 post-its ast minimum to the space each.
Before class, spend 15 minutes looking at the annotations you’ve posted and from your peers. Share three observations or insights. Post to #projects
Create a Post in the #projects channel on slack.
This should include three short observations.
Carman Neustaedter and Phoebe Sengers. 2012. Autobiographical design in HCI research: designing and learning through use-it-yourself. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ‘12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 514-523. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2317956.2318034
Audrey Desjardins and Aubree Ball. 2018. Revealing Tensions in Autobiographical Design in HCI. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ‘18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 753-764. - http://audreydesjardins.com/pdf/desjardins-tensionsAutobiographicalDesign-DIS2018.pdf