Dr. Milena Radzikowska

Mini-lectures for design

Over the past few months my colleague and dear friend, Dr. Stan Ruecker, and I have been thinking how best to support ourselves, each other, our students, and our colleagues during a pandemic.

We are creating a series of short movies (with audio and visuals) that are free for anyone who finds them useful. We have over 30 videos done at the moment, with more finished every day. Each video is uploaded to my vimeo page (linked ones are already there).

LAST UPDATED: 22 September, 2020

DESIGN METHODS

Introduction

  1. History of design approaches (styling, human-centred, participatory or co-design, post-human) (5:55)
  2. Types of design (1:08)
  3. Intro to design process models (2:03)
  4. 4-stage design process (research, analysis, synthesis, production) (1:14)
  5. 4-stage process including release (1:13)
  6. 6-stage design thinking process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, launch) (1:43)
  7. Double-diamond prototyping model (divergence, convergence) (1:40)
  8. 3 types of research (primary, secondary, tertiary) (2:18)
  9. Epistemologies of knowledge production (sequential, aggregative, discovery, exploratory expressive, generative) (3:03)

Collecting data

  1. 3 types of interviews (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) (3:25)
  2. Taking ethnographic fieldnotes with 3 column format (observations, emotions, interpretations) (3:09)
  3. Research prototyping (thinking through making, user study, modelling the domain) (2:49)
  4. Observation using POEMS (people, objects, environment, materials, systems) (2:21)
  5. Observation using AEIOU (activities, environments, interactions, objects, users) (3:14)
  6. Observations using 5 human factors (physical, cognitive, social, cultural, affective) (5:00)
  7. Gender data gap and the human factors (2:50)
  8. Diary studies (1:54)
  9. Narrative studies (1:30)
  10. Cultural probes (1:19)

Understanding and communicating

  1. Affinity diagrams, concept maps, mind maps, entity-relationship diagrams (3:40)
  2. SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
  3. Empathy maps (think, say, do, feel) (3:17)
  4. Convergence map
  5. Personas and scenarios (2:15)
  6. Gantt charts (1:36)
  7. Value proposition statements (For X who are interested in Y, we offer Z, which provides A, that is unlike the competition’s B. We are C)
  8. Feature, function, benefit sheets
  9. 10 types of innovation (Configuration: Profit Model. Network. Structure. Process; Offering: Product Performance. Product System; Experience: Service. Channel. Brand. Customer Engagement) (1:39)
  10. Eras map (e.g. product trends, service trends, retail, activities, brands, cultural icons, cultural moments) (2:20)
  11. Task analysis
  12. Trends matrix (technology, business, people, culture, and policy; formerly, currently, emerging)
  13. Roleplaying
  14. Values clustering

Creating

  1. 5 Es of experience (entice, enter, experience, exit, extend) (3:19)
  2. Compelling Experiences (defined, fresh, immersive, accessible, significant, transformative)
  3. Creativity using SCAMPER (substitute, combine, adjust, modify, put to other uses, eliminate, rearrange) (1:30)
  4. SCAMPER: Combine (00:58)
  5. Universal design (3:33)
  6. 6 thinking hats of Edward de Bono (facts, emotions, benefits, ideas, planning, judgment) (1:22)
  7. Storyboarding (1:32)
  8. Minimum viable product
  9. System blueprints
  10. Industrial design basics: accessibility standards
  11. Graphic design basics: hierarchy (2:15)
  12. Graphic design basics: grids (1:47)
  13. Graphic design basics: Gestalt principles (2:45)
  14. Reframing (dig deeper, go broader, find a new perspective)
  15. Brainstorming (00:42)

Post-release reflection

  1. Benchmarking
  2. Humanities readings — using any of a variety of lenses

Advanced skills

  1. Advocate for design
  2. Design for emotion
  3. Transition design
  4. Agile methods

CASE STUDIES

  1. Mental Health During COVID19 (3:21)

CRITICAL READING

  1. Alternatives (2:19)
  2. How to lie with statistics
  3. Rhetoric
  4. Subtext
  5. Theoretical lenses
  6. Asking questions (5:36)

SPECULATIVE DESIGN

  1. Intro to speculative design (1:39)
  2. Chindogu
  3. Provocation
  4. Useless design
  5. Diagetic design
  6. A to B thru Z (1:32)

DESIGNING YOUR SITE

  1. Attract, reward, inspire
  2. Telling your story
  3. Choosing your content
  4. The power of the hero image
  5. Call to action

Health to you and your family.

Milena & Stan

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