Contents
Class Info
- Date: September 28
- Meeting Info: Pearl 115
Topic
- Reviewing HW
- Finding and Defining An Audience
- What are personas?
- Breakout: Defining An Audience / Creating a Persona
- Breakout: KWHL Table
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
Due by 5pm Wednesday, 9/5
- Decide on two topics of interest for Project One
- Identify one main issue within each topic
- Explain why it is so important
- Using the supplied Word file, complete the above and email completed version to me by the deadline above. If I received it past deadline, my feedback will be delayed.
Due by Week 6, 9/12
- Read in Designer’s Research Manual:
- Research Summary and Creative Briefs, pgs. 120-133
- Chapter 4—Project Spotlights
- Wheels 4 Water, 180-185
- Begin making your Insight Statements.
- Complete How Might We sheets and keep in process book.
- Start building out an outline of your project’s audience.
- Begin creating 3 personas.
- Create a KWHL table and use it to guide your research/findings
for next class. - PROCESS BOOK CHECK-IN WEEK 6
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