Class Info

  • Date: September 21
  • Meeting Info: Pearl 115

Topic

  • Reviewing HW
  • Understanding Empathy as a Tool
  • What is primary to secondary research?
  • What is ethnographic research?

Objectives

  • Understand the role of the designer as a concept generator.
  • Build and expand your design research capabilities.
  • Explore ways to include more or yourself and community into your
    creative work.
  • Understanding the role of design research.
  • Build better design techniques and practices.
  • Explore tools/ways to exercise your creativity.

Lecture

You can view the lecture slides below.

Homework

  • Designer’s Research Manual, pgs. 66-73; 90-117
  • Place & create a PDF of homework from Week 1 and 3
    (labeling the weeks and your name).
    Email me your PDF by 12 noon, Monday, Sept. 26.

This IS ALL part of your research process and gets shown in your process book.