Interaction Design Methods

Pre-Presentation Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting I value the importance placed on accessible learning and creating with the Scrapyard Challenge workshops. I'm an avid fan of open access learning and I find it great when people share their knowledge or create spaces to share knowledge instead of overcharging. A particular aspect that I find interesting in the pillars of the workshop is the limited time frame. Having experienced this first hand last week in the prototyping exercize it's surprising how short time and urgency can lead to heightened creativity. Reagarding the use of materials and the importance placed on sustainability, I realize that I may underestimate the power that "trash" holds, and I would like to explore this more in future projects. Also projects outside of my studies I would like to incorporate more found materials than bought ones. However I do find it "sad" that the projects mostly...

 Pre-Presentation I found the RAW method interesting, using audio in combination with images. This approach puts an emphasis on the audio aspect compared to a regular video format where audio is treated of lesser importance than the visual aspect. This audio was being recorded one minute before and after the shot. This is a lot of time where something unpredictable could happen. The inability of post-editing leads to raw experiences which cannot later be influenced.  The researches mentioned, that they were often mistaken as anthropologists rather than technology researchers: "We made a specific point of telling them we were not anthropologists coming to their country to document aspects of their culture. Rather, we described ourselves as technology and design researchers on a field study, hoping to investigate how a variety of different kinds of people in different cultures use a new tool that we are developing."  And I wonder why this isn't seen as a branch of Anthr...

In many design practices as well as institutional events women are still left out or underrepresented. The example of the public bathroom space plan surprised me. That it would make more sense to add more space to the women's bathroom than the men's. The urinals take up less space so more men can pee simultaneously. Additionally women may need more time on the toilet due to menstruation related topics.  It was surpising to see that even architects forget demographic differences in room planning.  This makes me aware that it's very important to design WITH the users and not simply for the users, since as outsiders who do not have the lived experience of the users we can only make assumptions and thus there will always exist flawed designs because of this mistake. I will try to assume less and ask more.               Source: Visual Paradigm Online