03 – Week 03

To-Do Before Class

• Review Homework from last class 02 – Week 02

Topic

• Researching your OWN issue. Breakouts are the beginning of your design methodology. You can use the topics we collaborate with on our in-class or our Miro board or think of your own.

Lecture

Homework

Reading:

• Reading:
• A Designer’s Research Manual,
  • Practicing a Research Drive Approach (pp 102-118)
  • Research Strategies + Tactics (pp 34-40)
• Complete reading quiz: Week 03 Reading quiz

Project:

Create you “I will focus on…” Statement

How will you build empathy towards the topic? Are you a member of the audience, connected to the audience, or an outside observer?

Areas to help in your research:

• What areas of your topics and people that you need to empathize with?
• What types of ethnographic research should you be doing?
• Which groups of people are you designing for, and why?
• What are “tactics” most relevant for your topic?

Breakout Activities

Sample Breakouts

Work on the breakout activities list below to help build your design research and process.

• Week 01
  • Brain Storming
• Week 02
  • 5 Whys
  • Audience v1
• Week 03 (New)
  • KWHL Table
  • Data: what are the facts and figures (quantitative/qualitative info) about the topic in which you need to be immersed?
  • Triangulation (What Data, 1st  & 2nd person research should you focus on?)

This IS ALL part of your research process! and goes into your process book.

One-on-one meetings

Upload Process

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Present Discoveries NEXT CLASS…

Process Books UPLOADED and “I WIll focus on…” statements for class