TY - GEN
T1 - Making Spaces: How Design Workbooks Work
AU - Gaver, William
PY - 2011/5/7
Y1 - 2011/5/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - conceptual design
KW - interaction design
KW - ideation
KW - research through design
KW - design proposals
KW - design spaces
U2 - 10.1145/1978942.1979169
DO - 10.1145/1978942.1979169
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450302289
T3 - CHI '11
SP - 1551
EP - 1560
BT - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
CY - New York, NY, USA
ER -