Kalender

Location: Room 4618. Lindstedtsvägen 5, floor 6. Next to the Interaction Design studio.

During this workshop we will use PLEX cards to generate multiple design ideas. 

Preparation:

Read about PLEX cards - PLEX_Interactions2014.pdf

And the brainstorming technique here:

Bring the 10 sketchy ideas that were generated on the ideation workshop before lunch

More info can be found here.

Preparation: Prepare a note with 3 reflections or questions according to the reading seminar instructions!

Stebbins, R. A. (1997). Casual leisure: A conceptual statement. Leisure Studies, 16(1), 17-25.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/026143697375485#.VeSmWyyqqko (AVAILABLE THROUGH KTH NEWORK)

 Brown, Barry, and Oskar Juhlin. Enjoying Machines. MIT Press, 2015. Chapter 1

Bring 3 of your best ideas that you have turned into a koncept. It should be detailed in how it works so we can understand the interaction and help you refine it

Crit group 1 (Anders)

Supervision group 2 (vegas)

Bring 3 of your best ideas that you have turned into a koncept. It should be detailed in how it works so we can understand the interaction and help you refine it

Crit group 2 (Vegas)

Supervision group 1 (Anders)

VEGAS

More info can be found here.

Anders

Aim to bring your three 95% finished inspirational designs. We need to see how it will look like and how it supports the intended interaction.

Anders

Aim to bring your three 95% finished inspirational designs. We need to see how it will look like and how it supports the intended interaction.

Anders

Preparation: Prepare a note with 3 reflections or questions according to the reading seminar instructions!

Study questions:

In hindsight, have you engaged in any project that could have benefited from design thinking or feel didn’t feel well thought-out ?
How do you learn how to make good design judgements?

Nelson, H. G., & Stolterman, E. (2003). Design Judgement: Decision-Making in the “Real” World. The Design Journal, 6(1), 23–31. pdf

Brown, Tim. "Design thinking." Harvard business review 86.6 (2008): 84. pdf

NOTE THAT YOU MIGHT NEED TO BE ON THE KTH NETWORK (VPN) TO ACCESS THE PAPERS

Vegas

More info can be found here.

Anders & Vegas

More info can be found here.

More info can be found here.

• What is responsible design when it comes to leisure with mobile devices?


• You have two preparatory tasks:
  
  
  
  • Discuss three issues you would find interesting to explore further and take responsibility for in your project. Motivate why you find these issues interesting and important.
  
  
  • Find one or more cases of what you would consider “irresponsible" in the domain of designing for leisure
    
    
    
    • In what ways do you find it irresponsible? Ideas for possible redesigns? 
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Put down your thought on an A4 and bring to the crit for group presentation and discussion

More info can be found here.

More info can be found here.

During the week:

• select one main issue to focus on in your design
• search and read up on relevant research (scholar.google.com or acm.org/dl), at least a couple of research papers that in some way address the issues you will work with
• Sketch 3 detailed alternatives ways that you believe in to address your issue of choice, the sketches should explain in detail the interaction including how you intend the interaction to begin.

During the crit:

• Present and motivate your issue of choice and 3 alternative design proposals (sketches) that you think could addresses it
• main insights from research
• 7 min presentations using the projector + 7 min discussion

We will go and learn about some cases and challenges to come at Propellerheads. For those who have never heard of them they work with apps and applications for playing and making music. Preliminary agenda is to hear about their learnings from making their Figure app and then they will tell us about their ongoing exploration of new domains. 

For those interested, there will be some beers and mingle after the lecture.

We will meet their absolutely no later than 15:15!

https://www.propellerheads.se/

This is an incredible opportunity that probably won't come back unless you actually get a job there!

Adress: Hornsbruksgatan 23117 34 Stockholm

Please let med know that you can come so that I can make sure that I can inform them how many we are.

http://doodle.com/5zaynynqsg5snevt

Anders

More info can be found here.

Preparation: Prepare a note with 3 reflections or questions according to the reading seminar instructions!

How the papers relate to the topic of responsible design? 
What can we learn from these texts? 
Are they in any way related to your current project? 
What main points do the authors try to make? 
Was it anything in the paper/chapter that you did not understand or seemed problemetaic?

Papanek, Victor, and R. Buckminster Fuller. Design for the real world - Chapter 4: Do-it-yourself Murder. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. pdf

Purpura, S., Schwanda, V., Williams, K., Stubler, W., & Sengers, P. (2011). Fit4life: The Design of a Persuasive Technology Promoting Healthy Behavior and Ideal Weight. In Proc CHI’11 (p. 423). ACM. pdf 

More info can be found here.

Supervision: Vegas

Crit with Anders (replace 4 with a and 1 with i ;-)

L1s4 & M1k4el4
Jon1 & Edw1n
S4nn4 & Ch4rles
S4m & Jul14 & C4tr1n
M4r1l14 & F1on4
Josef1ne & C4rol1n4

THE REST GOES TO THE LATER CRIT SESSION AS PLANNED!

TODO:

During the week:

• Continue with a single design solution based on your feedback from the crit. It may be to continue and improve one of your ideas, a combination of ideas, or something emerging from the feedback as a more interesting path for further development.
• Get feedback from externals ((potential)users + experts)
• Continue to develop your idea by making a prototype

During the crit:

• Present your prototype and the interaction with it using what ever medium you require (e.g. clickable prototype, miniature model or video prototype)
• 7 min presentations

More info can be found here.

Supervision: Anders

Crit with Vegas - ALL GROUPS NOT MENTIONED IN THE PREVIOUS SESSION!

TODO:

During the week:

• Continue with a single design solution based on your feedback from the crit. It may be to continue and improve one of your ideas, a combination of ideas, or something emerging from the feedback as a more interesting path for further development.
• Get feedback from externals ((potential)users + experts)
• Continue to develop your idea by making a prototype

During the crit:

• Present your prototype and the interaction with it using what ever medium you require (e.g. clickable prototype, miniature model or video prototype)
• 7 min presentations

• During the week:
  
  
  
  • Get additional final feedback on your updated design from external peers
  
  
  • May want to talk to the same external as you have already talked to about the update
  
  
  • You might need to consult new experts, organisations, researchers, users, etc. (REQUIRED IF THE ONCE YOU TALKED TO DID NOT PROVIDE GOOD FEEDBACK OR IF YOU THINK THEY WANT ADD ANYTHING NEW AFTER THE UPDATE)
  
  
  • Finalize your design based on crit feedback and feedback from external peers
  
  
  
  


• During the crit:
  
  
  
  • Cross-group presentations and open exhibition
  
  
  • Prepare a short “elevator pitch” and additional arguments needed to defend your design
    
    
    
    • Issue, your framing, how you address it, what externals think
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Present your final design (prototype)
  
  
  
  

• Read: http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/book


• Bring two ideas (per person) for projects you believe in:
  
  
  
  • Assess your ideas by: checking similar solutions, asking around, 6 thinking hats, sketching, read product reviews, and thinking about what you really really like
  
  
  
  


• Bring two examples of existing or novel business models that may be interesting for your design ideas (per group)

Anders

This week you really need to make it work! A good way to sanitise your idea is to test it in action. However, you rarely need to prototype everything, so focus on the main interactive elements. You need to get the design (visual and interaction) together so that we understand to 100 percent how it works in action and that it actually will work. Including the details of the interaction such as sliding, animations, feedback, etc. 

If your are using GPS stuff, get out there with the GPS and maps and play it and figure out how it should be done! (many of the ideas could easily be prototyped with Google Maps, images, and a tiny bit if javascript). If your doing game like stuff you could put probably put something together with Unity or Flash. And so on...

small group presentation

Present a "finished" design of your interactive product, including:

• Name of the product


• Main concept


• Interaction scenario(s)


• Visual identity, logo etc


• prototype it, showing flow of interaction


• try to fill your prototype with good content!

Vegas

5 min sales pitch presentations for the whole class. This is really tough and requires a lot of work to pull off!

Present your updated and improved prototype with a nice appealing design and interaction. It should also be clear that it is well adjusted to work with your business model.

Make a brochure (pitch) that complements your prototype and in a selling way explains your idea. This is important in order to "stay with people" after the presentation. Print a bunch of copies that could be distributed in class. 

• motivation 


• differentiators 


• the business model 


• main features in the design 


• starting budget: what you think it would cost (in time and money) to actually realise your project (if it isn’t already :) )


• potential risks


• Names and contact information 

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming.  Chapter: Design as Critique.
(The whole book is available online through KTHB: http://lib.myilibrary.com.focus.lib.kth.se/Open.aspx?id=550347)

Ramia Mazé, and Johan Redström. (2007). Difficult forms: critical practices of design and research. In: IASDR'07: International Association of Socities of Design Research 2007 - Emerging Trends in Design Research, 12-15 Nov 2007, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Design.

More info can be found here.

Preparation: read and comment on 2 other groups During the workshop we will discuss each paper in smaller groups. Here it will be a plan for who reads your paper prior to the writers workshop! Make sure to email your readers the paper as soon as possible so that they can skim it!

More info can be found here.

Preparation: Prepare a note with 3 reflections or questions according to the reading seminar instructions!

Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman, and John Antanitis. 2012. Critical design and critical theory: the challenge of designing for provocation. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 288-297.

Bell, G., Blythe, M. & Sengers, P. (2005) Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologies. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …. [Online] 12 (2), 149–173. Available from: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1067862 [Accessed: 7 September 2014].

More info can be found here.

Vegas.

More info can be found here.

Bring your online portfolio with at least one of the course projects added.

More info can be found here.

Anders

Open exhibition at the entrance of the KTH library