In your studies and theory classes, you have encountered many research methods. In a group discussion, you'll come up with the many different ones and discuss how they have been relevant. Each group will present in class.
Prototyping & Testing Fly on the wall Recurring interviews Recurring Testing Workshops Cultural Probes
In a second individual exercise, you should come up with examples of research questions that are derived directly from the works you created in past classes.
How could a tool help us to create new outcomes for the problems at hand?
How can tools be altered / reimagined to fit our specific liking, process, application area and product?
How can we make current visual design tools more attractive, motivational and less deterministic?
How can design tools be reimagined to enable a more iterative flow and incorporate more generative approaches?
How can we sustain, repurpose, hack the lifecycle of old tools in the context of a design process?
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