Design ethnography is part of the design process that aims to help the designer understand who they are designing for. It involves going in depth into the everyday lives of the person they think will use the design, to build an understanding of what is important to them, their routines and their experiences. Designing sympathetically … Continue reading design ethnography.
Following the filming of my interview, I had to edit all the clips together to make sure the video was as close to 3 minutes as possible. I managed to edit it down to be 3.17 minutes including the additional factor of gathering insights from the information collected in the interview. From this interview I … Continue reading insights.
This week in our Design Methods for Insight Gathering module, we were introduced to the method of Affinity Mapping. “Affinity mapping is a group analysis process used to meaningfully cluster together qualitative data in order to gain deep insights into the underlining meaning. It is an “bottom up” process, whereby final themes are developed through … Continue reading affinity mapping.
After planning the interview through the use of storyboarding and pre planning the questions I intended to ask the interviewee, I set out to record the interview yesterday. I planned to ask the following questions: HOW DO YOU USE PHOTOGRAPHY IN YOUR LIFE IN TERMS OF STUDY AND YOUR SOCIAL LIFE? DO YOU TAKE PHOTOS … Continue reading filming the interview.
We have been asked to conduct an interview based around the relationship that a first year university student has with photography. I have chosen to interview a first year History student at the University of Dundee with the main research question being ” How important is photography in the life of a first year university … Continue reading interview questions.
Storyboarding is a visual representation of the narrative of an event. They include a mixture of word and image to tell a timeline of events or ideas from start to finish. Annotations are included to reflect thinking or provide more information about what is being depicted in the imagery. This is the storyboard that I … Continue reading storyboarding.
This week we learnt about directed storytelling in our Design Methods for Insight Gathering module. Directed storytelling is used to gain the true essence of a persons experience rather than an accurate documentation of what exactly happened. This is a form of qualitative research. The researcher begins with a prompt question followed by probing questions to … Continue reading directed storytelling.
Shadowing is a form of design research that is used to gain understanding of someone’s role or job. It allows this through the observation of the individual in their role to improve one’s general knowledge of the position and to allow them to gain insights into what is involved. This normally only lasts a couple … Continue reading shadowing.
As part of my design methods and insight gathering module I participated in generative research exercises that my lecturer set for us as a class. As groups, we were asked to build the exterior of our dream house. At the end of the task, we had to identify as a class the three most desired … Continue reading generative research.
To kick start our Design Methods and Insight Gathering module we received a talk from Dr Wendy Moncur about Online Identity and performance of self. This was a really interesting talk and posed some really thought-provoking questions. When does our social life start? When we are born? When we can speak? I don’t think there … Continue reading online identity.
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