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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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What is design?

May 4, 2009penny 1 Comment

As part of establishing the theoretical building blocks for my thesis I have been writing a position on design, and design research. To my surprise a debate about the nature of both has spring up again on the PhD Design… Continue Reading →

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Introducing Personas and Scenarios

April 30, 2009penny Leave a Comment

The highlight for last week was introducing 300 first year design students at UTS to the idea of personas and scenarios. The guest lecture was for the Researching Design Processes course being run by the fantastic Lizzie Muller. There is… 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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