Social Technologies, Participation & Design methods, #dtdrinks #sketchnotes

Sketchnotes by @bencrothers

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to present some aspects of my Phd research at this weeks Design Thinking Drinks in Sydney. Above is one of the  awesome sketchnotes that @bencrothers did of my talk, it also captures some of the questions and discussion.  I’ll put up the slides shortly, hopefully with notes. In the meantime, enjoy  @bencrothers ‘ take on it – sketchnoting is cool for lots of reasons, but as a presenter you get a real sense for what stood out which is fantastic, and how people interpreted what you are saying. I think all researchers should seek out some one like Ben to sketchnote their talks, – gives a completely different perspective on your #phd and research to a standard conference review – So big thanks @bencrothers ! Continue reading…

A collation of posts from the 11th Participatory Design Conference

The full week of fabulous workshops, tutorials and presentations that made up the 11th Participatory Design Conference 2010 at the beginning of this month (December) is already somewhat of a blur of great people, insights & presentations. I hoped to provide a summary of my own, but alas the thesis called – instead I’ve collated some fabulous insights by others who not only attended and contributed but who also managed to share their experiences  Thanks again to all those who came and participated and thanks to the following authors (esp. @malbooth ) for sharing your thoughts. Continue reading…

UPCOMING: The Participatory Design Conference: UX/SD Highlights

The Participatory Design (PD) Conference in Sydney now has its preliminary programme up. While this is an academic research conference the nature of participatory design (designing with people) means the conference deals with very designerly and practice-based issues.

As a design conference, it’ll be of most value to people interested in incorporating participatory co-design and user innovation methods into their practice, projects and organisations, or building on existing user centred design approaches#.

The conference includes tutorials, workshops, panels, research presentations and industry cases and topics are as diverse as civic engagement, rural development, large scale IT systems, health, education and museums. Below are some highlights from the programme that might be of interest to the UX & Service Design community in particular. Continue reading…