This month’s meeting is going to put you to work! Join Paula Thornton and be part of a group exploratory activity to provide feedback to a research group at the University of British Columbia.
NOTE: Stephen Anderson may drop in to run us through an exercise with his “Mental Notes” cards. He is trying to work it into his schedule.
Paula will lead us through an exercise that supports UBC’s research “how interaction design experts think about the role of social values in their design processes”. UBC is performing the study to gain an understanding of how interaction design experts think about the role of social values in their design processes.
Paula Thornton is a design expert who works with companies and professional organizations to help them define and understand how design can help them build better products and services.
When: Tuesday, September 27
6:30 pm
Where: Slingshot
208 North Market Street #500, Dallas, TX
214. 634.4411
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It is interesting that the research is being done by the University of British Columbia, but the cards themselves were developed at The information School at the University of Washington. You can find out more about the cards themselves at: http://www.envisioningcards.com/
This is great.
Do you think small entrepreneurs might be benefited by creating social value in their businesses?
How do they do that?
Yes, it should be of interest. The IDEO cards are very insightful at problem-slving in general. You will enjoy the discussion
I’m integrating this post as part of the event. Individuals will be reporting back here. While each working group will have a report, individuals themselves will be checking back here for this assignment (specifically for the researchers to come and view). For each of the attendees and participants in this event, please consider and share your responses to the following (I’ve modified them here because the researchers did not consider various scenarios of participants — they themselves made too many assumptions about practitioners
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1. Your role in your organization or typical roles you perform (a title you most frequently identify with).
2. The types of projects you typically work on (or have worked on).
3. Do you agree or disagree with the statement: “Designers explicitly consider values during their design process”? Why?
4. What value do you see using tools such as the Envisioning Cards in your work?
5. Have you used such tools or engaged in such conversations, or attempted same? What successes or challenges did you experience?
Our table is working on: Redesigning the Practice Management package
And there’s 4 people on our team. Lara, Elisa, Ashok + Cone – we’re working collaboratively on creating a list of (medical) direct + indirect stakeholders
We used the Experience Cards to work on solving a core problem for fundraising for non-profits, which is what one of participants was actually doing in her current role. We used the Pervasiveness cards, which covered a diversity of topics–Geographic Location, Crossing National Boundaries, etc.
To document our discussion, we used a mind mapping technique. Our central focus was to “build a solution for fundraising for non-profits” (we placed the central focus on the center of our page.
Each of the Pervasiveness cards were branches leading off of the central focus. We followed the instructions and added more branches to each card. For example, we had one branch called Geographic Regions. Our card talked about adding three different geographic locations. The Mind Map looked like this:
Geographic Region
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Urban Suburban Rural
Within each of these sub-branches (Urban, Suburban, Rural), we created other branches to flesh out our mind map.
Within our landscape, we knew education and awareness were opportunities for each location. For Rural, we talked about how an Influencer person (minister, mayor, coach, teacher) could help to sway the public opinion and raise awareness about a non-profit need.
We fleshed out an entire mind map around our core issue (non-profit fundraising), using the cards as the Main branches for the mind map.
Lastly, we talked about how some of the cards interact with each other (which is OK). Plus, we talked about how the cards make you think differently about a problem space, as opposed to the typical SWOT analysis you see in most businesses.
A great time was had by all. We all ate too much guacamole and chips, too.