Discovery Phase - Deliverable 1
DESIGN RESEARCH FINDINGS & INSIGHTS
Design Insights Presentation | October 20
For Deliverable 1, teams will need to submit a brief synthesizing the Research Findings and Design Insights you've gathered to date, and develop a supporting presentation for our stakeholder client. You should include a refined problem statement with target audiences in mind, and provide an overview of the user needs and requirements your team has established during the discovery phase to guide your design of an open portfolio platform. Show relationships between data, research and design insights, either in writing or by associating them visually for readers to compare.
On 20 October, each team will present to a remote design review panel (via Zoom ) during the class period. Plan for a 10 minute presentation, with 5 minutes for questions and discussion from MakerEd Open Portfolio stakeholders. Work collaboratively to prepare this deliverable, but each team member should own a section of the presentation.
[ Presentation Rubric ]
Design Research Brief Sections
[ Report Rubric ]
Confirmed Reviewers
Design Insights Presentation | October 20
For Deliverable 1, teams will need to submit a brief synthesizing the Research Findings and Design Insights you've gathered to date, and develop a supporting presentation for our stakeholder client. You should include a refined problem statement with target audiences in mind, and provide an overview of the user needs and requirements your team has established during the discovery phase to guide your design of an open portfolio platform. Show relationships between data, research and design insights, either in writing or by associating them visually for readers to compare.
On 20 October, each team will present to a remote design review panel (via Zoom ) during the class period. Plan for a 10 minute presentation, with 5 minutes for questions and discussion from MakerEd Open Portfolio stakeholders. Work collaboratively to prepare this deliverable, but each team member should own a section of the presentation.
- Teams not presenting will need to note-take and document stakeholder comments and critique from the review panel for their classmates.
- Each team must respond to this feedback in comments or by revisions to your materials by the next class session.
- Submit final, revised Deliverable 1 slides and report as a .zip file to the course Box folder for Deliverable 1.
[ Presentation Rubric ]
Design Research Brief Sections
- Problem statement
(Re)frame the problem space you are designing for based on your Phase 1 discovery research and experiences. - Research Findings Synthesis
Describe your research methods and process. Tell us what you heard/saw/read, what it means, and how it informs your ideas for an open portfolio system and drives what your team wants to do and why. Draw on your readings and include with citations, stakeholder maps, user study data, insight boards and personas. Pull out quotes, audio clips to give voice to users, add visuals (images, diagrams, graphic representations, screen shots ) to communicate and make user, contexts and findings more vivid. - Design Insights & Inspirations
Based on your research findings, note emerging patterns, make evidence-based claims and inferences about target users goals, motivations, needs, challenges and opportunities. If central to your evolving design idea, include inspirations. Abstract your findings into models or visual representations that make sense of the data. Ground your research, connect insights to evidence, use models to organize research into coherent findings, formulate design insights tied to design implications. - Guiding Vision Statement
Revisit your design hypothesis that addresses the following in your own words the following (“We believe that building this [platform/experience/tool/service] for [these people] will achieve [this/these outcomes]. We will know this is true when we are able to reliably gather [this feedback, these quantitative measures, and/or these qualitative insights and indicators]." Has your team defined any guiding design principles you want to keep front and center? Is there a particular aspect of open portfolios you want to focus on in more depth (e.g. peer critique in school-based contexts, reflection on work in progress, expert others interacting around youth's creative process) based on your research insights? Provide a scoping plan in your summary. - Appendices
Include supporting research materials, analysis artifacts and data representations of interest (reference list, user study protocols w/questions, user profile insight boards, quotes summary pages, survey data tables /graphs)
[ Report Rubric ]
Confirmed Reviewers
- Dr. Kylie Peppler, The Creativity Labs, Indiana University
- Stephanie Chang, Director of Programs, Maker Ed