080 | Participatory Design |
A human-centered approach advocating co-design engagement with users and stakeholders
- Participatory design has its roots in Scandinavia in the 1970s, where computer professionals worked with unions to integrate new technology into the workplace.
- Participatory design encompasses several methods, unified by face-to-face contact in activity-based co-design engagements.
- Methods include cultural probes, diary studies, photo studies, collage, flexible modeling, role-playing, creative toolkits, and design workshops.
- Participatory design respects the creative insight of participants to inspire and help guide the design process and to respond to design outcomes.
- A framework of participatory design describes the form of method or technique (making, telling, and enacting) and purpose.
- Purposes are probing participants for self-discovery, priming for further participation, understanding current experience, and generation of future scenarios and concepts.
See alsoCreative Toolkits • Design Workshops • Generative Research
In this participatory design project on appliance design for the aging population, participants use creative toolkits for design input and offer feedback on prototypes.
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