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Essential Understanding
Essential Understanding
Primary research provides the designer with unique and valuable information about the user and the design context.
Primary research provides the designer with unique and valuable information about the user and the design context.
Your primary research
Your primary research
will consist of the following:
will consist of the following:
1. Evidence and notes of observation
1. Evidence and notes of observation
2. Survey to gather primary research
2. Survey to gather primary research
3. Identifying an expert you can contact to provide information, feedback, or ideas.
3. Identifying an expert you can contact to provide information, feedback, or ideas.
1. Observation
1. Observation
Observation of a design context can provide a designer with valuable information about the problem, user, and context.
Observation of a design context can provide a designer with valuable information about the problem, user, and context.
Steps
Steps
In A2.2, document your observations of the user, the task, and/or situation. This should include photos, images, and notes based on your observations. The photos should be taken by you.
Guidance and resources
Guidance and resources
All notes, images, etc., should be done by you. (i.e. The work here must be original)
Notes can be annotations, thoughts or ideas based on observing the user and/or situation
Possible options are:
Possible options are:
interviewing the user, expert, or person who can provide a valuable insight about the context.
taking photos of someone doing a task and annotating what they are doing , why they are doing it, and any challenges they have
Doing a PPC analysis of the product, item, situation, or space.
2. Expert knowledge
2. Expert knowledge
Experts can provide a unique perspective about a design problem.
Experts can provide a unique perspective about a design problem.
In MYP Design, an expert is defined as someone who has specialized knowledge or experience that is relevant to the user, problem, or design context.
In MYP Design, an expert is defined as someone who has specialized knowledge or experience that is relevant to the user, problem, or design context.
Steps
Steps
Discuss with your peers and teacher who a relevant expert might be.
Record this person in A2.1 of your inquiry portfolio. Be sure to list:
Name
Occupation
Qualification (what makes them an expert that is useful to you)
Contact information (email, phone, office...)
Guidance and resources
Guidance and resources
You should identify at least 1 expert that you can contact. It is important that you be able to actually speak to this person.
The expert cannot be your design teacher, but may be other teachers who have relevant or specialized knowledge.
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