Making Spaces: How Design Workbooks Work

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Abstract

In this paper, I discuss design workbooks, collections of design proposals and related materials, both as a method for design and as a design methodology. In considering them as a method, I describe a number of examples of design workbooks we have developed in our studio and describe some of the practical techniques we have used in developing them. More fundamentally, I discuss design workbooks as embodiments of a methodological approach which recognises that ideas may emerge slowly over time, that important issues and perspectives may emerge from multiple concrete ideas, potentially generated by multiple members of a team, rather than being theory-driven, and that maintaining the provisionality and vagueness of early proposals can be useful in supporting a quasi-participatory design approach that allows participants to interpret, react to and elaborate upon the ideas they present.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of PublicationNew York, NY, USA
PublisherACM
Pages1551–1560
ISBN (Print)9781450302289
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 May 2011
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameCHI '11
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery

Keywords

  • conceptual design
  • interaction design
  • ideation
  • research through design
  • design proposals
  • design spaces

Research Group keywords

  • Interaction Research Studio

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