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Seeding: prototyping ‘in the wild’

May 25, 2009penny Leave a Comment

Over the last few years I’ve experienced a real change in the kinds of design services that might be needed by, or offered to, clients – especially working in the not for profit and community sectors. As we all know,… Continue Reading →

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Design, research, design research + Design Research

May 21, 2009penny Leave a Comment

I tried to respond to this thread http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=42131 on the Ixda list with the following comment, but I got an error (to long I guess!). So just thought I would put it here instead. The question was about whether design… Continue Reading →

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Immersion, Intervention & Seeding: three aims for early design research

May 19, 2009penny 2 Comments

For designers working on projects with a social outcome, early design research has a purpose that goes well beyond data collection [1]. Immersion, Intervention and Seeding are three key terms (and design research goals) that have emerged out of my… Continue Reading →

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This blog covers work, thinking and experiences on participatory design, social design and design research by Penny Hagen. I help organisations take a collaborative and participatory approach to the design and implementation of new processes, policy, strategy, services and initiatives. The opinions shared here are solely my own

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