Cultural probes
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I am an interaction / product designer, I am doing my master in Umea Institute of Design right now. I come from Inner Mongolia,China, and now I am living in Umea, Sweden
— Isabel Hillenbrand, Senior Strategic Designer at think moto, shares her insights on using cultural probes in combination with in-depth interviews for exploratory research. — When we developed ideas…
Reflection From the result of the cultural probes, we learn a number of information from our clients to inspire our design ideas. For example, from the sharing tools probe and the interview questi…
In the context of a university Design Research and Methods class we learned co-creation and several research methodologies. The class revolved around environmental health and measuring the impacts of…
This semester, our main goal was build on the foundations that we developed in the Fall Semester and to understand the context of the problem a bit further on a personal level of our stake holders. C...
Cultural Probes work by revealing fragmentary insights into peoples’ lives, giving access to everyday realities while preserving a sense of mystery. Probes are collections of evocative tasks given to volunteers to elicit inspiring responses.
Unseen Cultures Probe Kit is an activity kit given to participants to gain insight into their understanding of and opinions surrounding environmental...
An attempt to share good practice and experience in developing useful design research tools. Design and cultural probes are a design orientated research method which seek to explore rather than solve problems, gaining insight into the richness of the individual experience. <i> “Summarizing returns tends to produce an “average” picture that may not reflect any individual well, and that filters out the unusual items that can be most interesting” Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Pennington, S. & Walker…
