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Spring 2017: March 28 - May 5.

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The module takes place over 6 weeks, including a reading week (5), from Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am-17pm. March 28 - May 5.
Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, assignments and independent study blocks.
Projects are conducted in groups of 4 students. 

Overview and Objectives

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In an interaction design process, different methods are applied in several stages of project development: Context/User Inquiry, Concept Generation, Idea Testing, Prototype Development, Evaluation and Concept Iteration.
This course is project-based and will allow students to have a hands-on experience with a range of methods at different stages of interaction design process.
Organised in groups, students will develop innovative design concept for a product, a service or an experience. 
Following a structured stages of observation, creation, and evaluation we will discuss and apply from situated and user-centered methods to creative design practice (eg. bodystorming, context analysis, video scenarios). 

Your project development is structured in following steps:

• Week 1: Into the Wild!
  User, context and/or technology inquiry
  Methods: direct and participatory observation, video ethnography, interviews, questionnaires, cultural probes, etc.

• Week 2: Idea Transfers
  Enacting and testing ideas
  Methods: sketching, bodystorming, brainstorming, participatory methods, extreme characters, etc

• Week 3: Play 
  Creating prototypes and confronting them to the 'real world'
  Methods: participatory methods with mockups, cartoon scenarios, acting out an experience  etc.

• Week 4: Stories and users
  How is your work being evaluated? 
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• Week 5: Production 1
  This reading week allows you to work on your production assignment
  
  
• Week 6: Production 2
  This week is to finalise your work.
  
  

During the course the student will learn: -

• how to design through personal exploration and in communication with others (participatory design)

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• how to search for new possibilities/opportunites/alternatives for interactive products, rather than responding to a set of given requirements

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• how to use a variety of methods and tools which can be existing design practices, can be borrowed from other disciplines and can be developed by designers themselves 

Final Deliverables 

1. Documentation of assignments and your design process in a blog

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Any assignment that remains unfulfilled receives a failing grade.  

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Deliverables

• Group presentations

Interval group presentations each week present the advancement of the group's project and highlight the specific requirements of that week.
Each presentation are structured so that each group member will introduce an aspect of the project. On average, the presentation should be 10 minutes.
The format is open: 

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Throughout the module, various short home assignments will be given to practice concepts discussed in class.

Course Materials

The course IAD Design Methods provides the background literature for this class.
Readings are made available in the shared IAD server.

Additional readings are provided here.

Calendar

JB: Joëlle Bitton, NF: Nicole Foesterl

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