03 – Week 03

To-Do Before Class

• Review Homework from last class (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 on our Miro board or think of your own.

Lecture

Homework

Reading:

• A Designer’s Research Manual,
  • Big Concepts in Research pp 34-41
  • Ethnographic Research pp 48 – 73
• Complete reading quiz: Week 03 Reading quiz

Project:

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 “tactics” are 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
  • 5 Whys 
• Week 02
  • Find an Audience
  • How Might We’s
• Week 03 (New)
  • Immersion (What type of ethnographic research works best for your topic at this stage? Use one or more techniques to better understand WHO you are creating this project for.)
    • ACTUALLY, DO SOME ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH and chronicle your findings.
  • Describe the behaviors of your topic audience. (How do they act toward the topic? What are things they would like to address? How can they be part of the solution?) These are just some questions… think of others that may better describe your audience!

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

One-on-one meetings

Upload Process

As a comment to this Week 03 Process Upload post

Present Discoveries NEXT CLASS…

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