Dear PhD-Design list members,
I am about to teach a short 'Research for Design' course to undergrad
students at a professional design education institute (not a university).
This will probably be the first and only such course that they will follow
in their UG program. I want to make it simple for them to effectively apply
some techniques like observation and interviewing for their future projects.
So far, my experience has been that the students are able to look at and
hear many things within a situation, but have difficulty in seeing and
listening to stimuli (focus and interpret) and transform them into insights
for design. Personally, looking at my own process, I think notetaking forms
a critical part of the research activity and it would be effective to focus
on developing/collecting some tools that would help the students
systematically take notes of their observations and interviews with the
intention of extracting insights from them.
I thought of note-taking methods with corresponding templates that I have
seen earlier that are used by practitioners to prescribe and guide an ideal
note-taing process. Some of these are:
1. Cornell Notes
2. 6-up and 1-up templates from AdaptivePath? (
http://www.boxuk.com/blog/using-sketchboards-to-design-great-user-interfaces)
[not exactly note-taking, but similar]
3. The notepads used by McKinsey and BCG that have a grid on one side and a
powerpoint slide on the other... (haven't been able to locate a link to a
picture)
Can you point me to some more examples and/or share some of your own
expreriences and tools?
Thanks and regards,
Soumitra
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Soumitra Bhat, MSc.
Director - UserINNOV Design Co.
www.userinnov.com
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