Design Methods

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Pages about design methods of various sorts.

It should be noted that many of the design methods listed below can fall into several different categories. For example, Personas can be used as a brainstorming tool, as well as a design analysis tool.

Sociotechnical Approach to Design - this is a page simply for collecting findings about how to do design.

Contents

Brainstorming Exercises

Mashup Brainstorming

Concept Mapping

Bad Ideas

Personas

Scenarios



Requirements Gathering

Ethnomethodologically Informed Ethnography

Personas

Scenarios


M. Reddy, W. Pratt, P. Dourish, and M.M. Shabot. Sociotechnical Requirements Analysis for Clinical Systems, Methods of Information in Medicine, Special Issue on Information Technology in Healthcare: Sociotechnical Approaches. 2003; 42: 437-44.


Communicating Requirements

Personas

Scenarios


Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping and Evaluation

Paper Prototyping

Cooperative Prototyping

Patchwork Prototyping

Design Analysis

Cognitive Walkthroughs

Affordance Analysis

Personas

Scenarios


Comprehensive(-ish) Design Methods and Design Theories

Agile Methods

Participatory Design

Task-Artifact Cycle

Waterfall Method of Design

Spiral Model of Design


Approaches to Design

Human centered design

Interaction Design

Inquiry-Based Design

Design Concerns

Usability


Related Links

Personal tools