Co-design: some principles, theory and practice…

I recently had the pleasure of teaching a workshop on co-design techniques at UTS as part of their new Design Masters program. The term co-design refers to a range of things and is a philosophical and political approach to design best applied throughout the design life cycle [1]. The focus of this particular session was on techniques that you might use at the fuzzy-front end of the design process and included hands-on examples of the kinds of activities we might do as part of a co-design workshop. This post is a summary of the key messages on co-design covered as part of the session. (A second post will summarise the day and some of the questions from the students).  Continue reading…

Design in the wild: PDC’10 Presentation

A Huge Thank You

The Changing Nature of Participation in Design: A practice-based study of social technologies in early design research

Penny Hagen
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computing Sciences
1st April 2011
Interaction Design and Human Practice Laboratory
School of Software, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney

I can not express how pleased I am to have finally submitted my PhD thesis for examination. There are so many friends, family members, colleagues, participants, clients, researchers, tweeps, acquaintances and strangers whose words, thoughts, support and understanding were critical in the development (and most importantly the completion) of the thesis. To all of you, thank you so much. It really is finished this time.

I’ll be posting a link to the full Pdf shortly. [Edit - here is the link to download the thesis] Please find the in brief version (abstract) below.

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