smallfire: design strategy, research & methods to support participation
The slides from @michellegilmore and my presentation at UX Australia are up on slideshare. We’ll add the audio as it becomes available. We’re hoping to take a version of this presentation to IXD10 next year (submissions are currently being reviewed) so any feedback and thoughts are more than welcome!
UX Australia was a fantastic conference, thanks again to the organisers!
Last week @michellegilmore and I got our first article up on Johnny Holland: User Stories: a strategic design tool. It was slightly chaotic trying to co-ordinate from Olso’s various internet cafes (and some loitering around unprotected wifi at apartment blocks) but we got there! Big thanks to all those that helped shape and edit the article :especially @semanticwill @docbaty @deskimo and Chris Gaul on the graphics!
Recently I sat down with the marvelous chris gaul for a co-sketching session, the aim was to work through visually some of the key concepts in my research into participatory methods and social technologies. I’d worked closely with cg before and knew he had a great talent for taking ideas, concepts and my random scribbles and translating in them into a visual language. In doing so he would identify key aspects that had been missing from the existing representations, but were central to the telling of the story.
In under two hours and in less than 2 beers, we had developed 3 draft concept sketches that conveyed the main points of my thesis well beyond my initial sketches. The catalyst to the breakthrough was Chris immediately introducing the concept of time, exactly the type of shift I hoped to make through a collaborative sketching session.
All of these sketches are start points, their role was to make available, capture and reveal key aspects of the concepts being discussed. I’ll be drawing on these to develop the concepts as well as guide how they are articulated in my thesis. (Thanks Chris!). I share here some our cafe sketches and very briefly outline the points they were capturing.
This blog covers work, thinking and experiences on design, design strategy and design research by Penny Hagen. I help organisations take a collaborative and participatory approach to the design & implementation of new processes, strategy, services, & products. The opinions shared here are solely my own.
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