smallfire: design strategy

Ozchi was an excellent conference (again), thanks to all the organisers that worked so hard. I felt like I missed a lot of great things and particularly would have liked to see the much talked about industry presentations that were on in a parallel stream to my own pres, but that is always the way with conferences I guess (good ones anyway!).

I’ve pasted the slidecast to my own presentation below, but I hope also to get a chance to do a summary of take-aways from the conference shortly.

The discipline of design is in a constant state of change. As noted in the previous post one of the most significant trends currently impacting on design practice is the opening up of the design process. Design is moving out from the studio and into the wild, taking place where people live [1].  Users are being re-cast as co-designers, co-creators and co-developers. Trends such as ‘open design’, ‘crowdsourcing’, designing for design in use, post-release iterations and ‘emergent design’ provide new ways for people to participate in the design process,  and challenge some of our traditional models of design.

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