Probing for co-exploring

Mattelmäki, Tuuli

doi:10.1080/15710880701875027

Cited by 55 publications

(57 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In this quality, design game materials can resemble that of probes as discussed by Gaver, Dunne, and Pacenti (1999) and Mattelmäki (2008). The visual and tangible components of the design game materials are generative tools.…”

Section: Design Games Provides a Structure For Design Game Designersmentioning

confidence: 97%

Design games in codesign: as a tool, a mindset and a structure

2014

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The increasing interest in engaging users and other partners in collaborative design has led to an increase in the number of methods for organising collaboration. The aim of these methods is to support collaborative explorations of future opportunities in inspiring atmospheres. In this discourse, design games have become a popular concept that has been widely adopted to describe various design activities, which at first glance do not necessarily share many qualities. This paper aims to provide further understanding about the purposes that design games serve in codesign. The main contribution of the paper is the introduction of a play framework that highlights three perspectives on how design games appear to different people experiencing them: as a tool, as a mindset and as a structure. To clarify the components of design games, the paper reflects on the relations between design and games, the two parts of the concept 'design games', and two further qualities embedded in games: play and performance.

show abstract

Section: Design Games Provides a Structure For Design Game Designersmentioning

confidence: 97%

Design games in codesign: as a tool, a mindset and a structure

2014

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This process often continues with designers and users meeting again and interpreting the probe returns together. In fact, for all parties, the process can be seen as a collaborative exploration for making sense, re-thinking and imagining (Mattelmäki 2008). In this process, users are seen as experts of their experiences and partners in building a creative understanding of their experiences, as well as envisioning future design opportunities (Postma, Lauche & Stappers 2009;Sanders & Dandavate 1999;Sleeswijk Visser et al 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The True Benefits of Designing Design Methods

Lee

2014

Artifact

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper calls for a new way of understanding and using methods in human-centred design. Design researchers have recently been active in developing new types of methods aimed at greatly improving their empathic understanding of people's holistic experience, and their design imagination. The strong motivation for a new methodology stems from critical reflection on scientific rationalisation of human-centred design, which attempts to pin down the design process and develop abstract user models. Despite this motivation, the design community has shown a tendency to use a conventional, scientific rationalisation when applying a stream of new design methods. In this paper, I analyse misinterpretations of the new design methods, which I call 'empathic design methods', and seek a more constructive way of understanding and describing how they actually work, going beyond 'methodrecipe' convention. By analysing design students' learning diaries, I investigate what learning is going on in method-making processes and demonstrate how those processes help design students to gather contextual knowledge of a design project and to develop their empathic understanding of users.

show abstract

“…But at the same time the students found the process fun and rewarding in two aspects: firstly they can use their design skills, and secondly the process of making the methods supports designerly way of solving problems (Mattelmäki [16] also discussed the effect of the making process of the probes for multi-disciplinary design collaboration.). Many students reflected in the diaries that they had become sensitized with the topic and the target users over the process of designing the methods.…”

Section: Methods Design Not Only For Users But Also For Designersmentioning

confidence: 97%

Tracing situated effects of innovative design methods

Lee

Vaajakallio

Mattelmäki

2011

Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In recent years the design research community has been active in developing new methods for user involvement and collaboration in the design process. The new methods, often called innovative design methods, correspond more to designer's genuine ways of thinking and working than do traditional user-centered ones. The entire purpose of innovative method is to allow for designer's creativity in the design of method and reflective learning, instead of relying on predefined rules of method. For this reason, codification and scientific evaluation are often regarded very challenging, if meaningful at all. This leads us to raise a question; what could be relevant ways of framing and communicating innovative design methods to better capture their nature and value?As one attempt to explore this question, our study takes a close look at inexperienced designers' practices with innovative methods, such as probes or co-design workshops. We chose students as research subjects because their situated actions -and the challenges they face in understanding and applying these methods -reveal just kind of knowledge about the innovative methods that needs to be communicated. To do this, we analyzed students' learning diaries written during the design course. When the students reported uncertainties and disappointments due to 'ill-defined' nature of such methods, we were able to trace the reasons for disappointments. We also found that the innovative design methods in fact supported the students for empathic learning and design inspiration from the making process of the methods. Keywords

show abstract

Probing for co-exploring

Cited by 55 publications

References 8 publications

Design games in codesign: as a tool, a mindset and a structure

Design games in codesign: as a tool, a mindset and a structure

The True Benefits of Designing Design Methods

Tracing situated effects of innovative design methods

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About