Design Studio

Why are we here?Sensemaking & Framing

Explore the “insert here” problem space

Ideation (not the suicidal kind)

Walk away with some decent designs

Outline

Your mission

Your challenge is to design the RallyWho dashboard & event planning experience for Katey, a 28 year old writer for ReadWriteWeb.

Collaborate

Goals

Generate Ideas

Goals

End up with several good ideas

Goals

Say Hello

Meet Your Team

Meet Katey

What is design studio?

Question

‣ Sketching‣ Presentation & Critique‣ Iteration

Design Studio

Sketch > Present > Critique > Refine

Process

Sketching DESIGN FUEL!

User Centered Design BITCHES!

Techniques

This is about quantity, not quality!This is about quantity, not quality!

Line Weight

Shading

Labels

Presentation & Critique

Abductive thinking

It’s about selling a concept

2 X 2 critique format

Your Mission

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For Insert Persona(s)

Instructions

• Work on your own with an 8-up

• Present and critique with your group

Instructions

‣ Refine base on peer feedback

‣ Present and critique with another group

Instructions

‣ Refine base on peer feedback

‣ Present and critique with entire group

‣ Pick the best

Format

15 minutes to reviewPersona, Background &

Design Challenge

Start

865

Wrap Up

‣ Feedback

‣ Questions

‣ What’s Next: Group Sketch!

CASHIER

CASH REGISTER

NARRATOR

BARISTA

LINE #2LINE #1

PROP SAYS: “ASSHOLE”

CUSTOMER

COFFEE PICKUP

REGISTER AUTOMATICALLY

RINGS UP ORDER

Example: in a coffee shop