Senior Product designer in London
Senior Product designer in London
My virtual sketchbook from University
Our workshop with Elvia Vasconcelos was on creating critical future scenarios. At the start of the session, we were looking into the politics of the area we had chosen – government. By looking into the government’s way of collecting data and the issues in terms of these following aspects technological, social and infrastructure, which helped us come up with a number of questions to come up with future scenarios and deciding how far into the future we would like to dive into and rating it based on how we felt about it: fail, meh and OMG! Once formulating our ideas we drafted a timeline and produced an artefact of our hypothetical event like after Brexit.
This process guided us with a way of coming up with new ideas and judging them. It explained to us the process of speculative design “We can also eliminate subjectivity by defining some requirements quantitatively. Just as success metrics make strategic goals quantifiable, defining a requirement in quantitative terms can help us identify whether we’ve met the requirement. For example, instead of requiring that the system have ‘a high level of performance,’ we can require that the system is
designed to support at least 1,000 simultaneous users. If the final product only allows three-digit user numbers, we can tell the requirement hasn’t been met” (Garrett. J,2011, p 71)
Reference:
Garrett, J J. (2011)The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered. Design for the Web and Beyond. Accessed from: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321683687/samplepages/0321683684.pdf