Susana! My sincere apologies for mis-spelling your name. I think my mind
drifted a bit there.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Susana La Luz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Soumitra,
> I wish I had more time to discuss this with you, but we're in the middle of
> international fielding right now and my time is short.
> When conducting these sessions, if the people involved are a designer as
> facilitator/moderator and participants/stakeholders, then I would recommend
> pairing up your students so each session can include a designer as
> facilitator/moderator and a secondary designer as note taker. This way, the
> facilitator is more free to develop a rapport and empathetic understanding
> through direct interaction without the interference of taking notes. In
> addition, having an explicit note taker allows for higher fidelity notes
> which facilitates a more rigorous analysis.
> Also, Elizabeth Sanders put out a really great high level understanding of
> the various approaches to design research, I think it's call the Landscape
> of Design Research & can be found for free at her website:
> www.maketools.com (which incidentally promotes generative design research
> methods that I personally tend to believe is a great tool for design
> research).
> I am a design researcher at a consultancy in the US & if you're interested
> in talking more about various methods of design research & I also happen to
> be personally interested in design research pedagogy. I will be more
> available for communication after August 1st.
> I hope this helps,Susana La Luz
> Design Research Associatelextant:
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:52:53 +0530
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Note-taking tools for Design Research
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Thank you Alun,
> >
> > The ORID framework seems to be something that I can use to develop my
> > material. I would aim for having the note-taking tool take on the role of
> > the 'facilitator' part of an ORID session.
> >
> > regards,
> > Soumitra
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Alun Price <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Soumitra
> > >
> > > For simple and effective techniques I tend to fall back on the ORID and
> > > SWOT questioning frameworks.  They can both be used in a number of
> > > situations.  ORID; Observation (what do you see, what are the details),
> > > Insights (how does it affect you, make you feel), Reflection (what do
> you
> > > think it means etc.), Decision (what will you do next). works well in
> > > framing sets of questions about a situation or a design that you're
> testing.
> > >
> > > Alun
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Soumitra" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Sent: Monday, 25 July, 2011 10:59:07 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing
> /
> > > Hong Kong / Urumqi
> > > Subject: Note-taking tools for Design Research
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Soumitra Bhat, MSc.
> > > Director - UserINNOV Design Co.
> > > www.userinnov.com
> > >
>
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