DR. MILENA RADZIKOWSKA

DESIGN METHODS

Introduction to design

  1. History of design approaches (styling, human-centred, participatory or co-design, post-human) (5:55)
  2. Types of design (1:08)

Design process

  1. Intro to design process models (2:03)
  2. 4-stage design process (research, analysis, synthesis, production) (1:14)
  3. 4-stage process including release (1:13)
  4. 6-stage design thinking process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, launch) (1:43)
  5. Double-diamond prototyping model (divergence, convergence) (1:40)
  6. 3 types of research (primary, secondary, tertiary) (2:18)
  7. Epistemologies of knowledge production (sequential, aggregative, discovery, exploratory expressive, generative) (3:03)
  8. Process books (1:27)

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)

Critical reading

  1. Alternatives (2:19)
  2. Rhetoric (2:29)
  3. Semiotics (4:15)
  4. Insights (1:58)

Understanding & communicating

  1. Affinity diagrams, concept maps, mind maps, entity-relationship diagrams (3:40)
  2. SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) (2:42)
  3. Empathy maps (think, say, do, feel) (3:17)
  4. Personas and scenarios (2:15)
  5. Gantt charts (1:36)
  6. 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) (1:35)
  7. Feature, function, benefit sheets (1:31)
  8. 10 types of innovation (Configuration: Profit Model. Network. Structure. Process; Offering: Product Performance. Product System; Experience: Service. Channel. Brand. Customer Engagement) (1:39)
  9. Eras map (e.g. product trends, service trends, retail, activities, brands, cultural icons, cultural moments) (2:20)
  10. Design brief (3:55)

Creating

  1. 5 Es of experience (entice, enter, experience, exit, extend) (3:19)
  2. Creativity using SCAMPER (substitute, combine, adjust, modify, put to other uses, eliminate, rearrange) (1:30)
  3. SCAMPER: Combine (00:58)
  4. Universal design (3:33)
  5. Usability (1:32)
  6. 6 thinking hats of Edward de Bono (facts, emotions, benefits, ideas, planning, judgment) (1:22)
  7. Storyboarding (1:32)
  8. Basic analog materials (1:09)
  9. Brainstorming (00:42)
  10. Functional Usable Pleasurable (1:27)
  11. Cliches and stereotypes (3:49)
  12. Values (1:26)
  13. Tension (6:30)
  14. Synthesis (3:54)
  15. Sketching (3:38)
  16. Testing (1:54)

DESIGN DIRECTIONS

Graphic design fundamentals

  1. Hierarchy (2:15)
  2. Grids (1:47)
  3. Gestalt principles (2:45)
  4. Using type (5:27)
  5. Describing letterforms (2:56)
  6. Describing type (2:37)
  7. Introduction to principles & elements (1:25)
  8. Elements in space (6:14)
  9. Sameness and difference (2:28)
  10. Unity & variety (2:29)
  11. White space (3:12)
  12. Story-based data-driven design (3:25)

Advanced skills

  1. The portfolio (4:31)
  2. Talking about your work (3:54)
  3. Material representation (5:36)
  4. Material data (6:44)
  5. Ideas as storytelling (3:32)

Case studies

  1. Mental Health During COVID19 (3:21)
  2. New Logo for the Mount Royal University Faculty Association (5:53)
  3. Reading the virus (4:32)

Conversations

  1. The Climate Disaster Project (31:25)

Interface & interaction design

  1. Interacting with the machine (3:14)
  2. Collecting digital information (2:31)
  3. Data cleaning (1:46)
  4. 3 kinds of metadata (2:41) 
  5. Semantic tagging (2:04)
  6. Mockups (2:54)
  7. Wireframing (2:27)
  8. Web design (5:47)
  9. Talking with Developers (3:11)
  10. Data representation (6:25)
  11. Interactive data visualization (5:15)
  12. Rich Prospect Browsing (3:44)

Speculative design

  1. Intro to speculative design (1:39)
  2. Adversarial design (2:34)
  3. Chindogu (1:24)
  4. Provocation (1:18)
  5. Useless design (1:07)
  6. Diagetic prototypes (1:10)
  7. A to B thru Z (1:32)

 

Dr. Stan Ruecker and I have created a series of free, short lectures on design methods, speculative design, graphic design, critical reading, and design case studies.

Videos are available through Vimeo.

LAST UPDATED: 14 February 2022

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