B5. Design Methods

Design methods help build trust in the client-design team relationship.
they allow members of both parties to explore the challenges presented by a particular brief or project in a loosely structured, but engaging way.

IDEO method cards
are intended as inspiration for practising and aspiring designers, as well as those seeking a creative spark in their work.
They have been adapted from a variety of established human and social research methods.
They are not prescriptive nor exhaustive 'how to' for human centred design, as a new methods are being developed, adapted and applied all the time.

Categories:

1. Learn: analyse the information collected to identify patterns and insights (conducting activity analysis, character profiles, competitive-product survey, secondary research)
2. Look: observe people to discover what they do rather than what they say they do (compile a day-in-the-life scenario, shadow a consumer, record extended periods of consumer behaviour using a time-lapse video)
3. Ask: enlist people's help to elicit information that is relevant to your ptoject (ask a participant to create camera journal, draw their own user experience)
4. Try: create simulations to help emphathise with people and evaluate proposed designs (paper prototyping, role-playing)

The sustainability issue map
by company A420
It provides design teams with an introduvction to the complex subject of sustainability.
The poster-format map visualises three sudtainability dimensions that design teams must deal with: contexts, agendas and issues.

Sustainability dimensions:

1. Contexts: Design doesn't work in issolation. Map shows: how a design team can contribute to the creation of more sustainable (udrzitelny) business, which will, in turn, create a more sustainable world
2. Agendas: Sustainability is all about conflict. Map shows: that the key challenge for design teams is balancing the four competing agendas of sustainability - financial, social, environmental, personal
3. Issues: Design teams must negotiate complexity. Map shows: that in order to balance the four agendas, a wider range of relevant issues must first be addressed. By dealing with the seissues in relation to all four agendas, design teams will not only gain a better understanding of sustainability, but also of design

In the form of scatter graph, which can be used to clearly identify the issues of any design project.
Each map has two essential features: the agenda axes and the distribution pattern.
The function is to reveal imbalances across competing agendas.

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For Major Project

Both - the IDEO cards and the map need to be purchased to use.
We haven't used them for that reason.
The IDEO cards are list of possible methods to use, so we didn't use the cards but we definitelly used some of the methods they are proposing.