Carmen Janet Gomez
Team 501-05 "The Planeteers"
Individual Graded Assignment No. I-2
Creativity Journal Profile (CJP)
Due Date: Tuesday, 07Dec. '10

"An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do"

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Managing the Creative Design Process Notes (Part 3)

Dr. Jorge Vanegas
Continuing with some practical tools
1.       Learn
·         Activity Analysis:
          How: list or represent in detail all tasks, actions, objects
          Why: it is a useful way to identify and prioritize which stakeholders to interview
·         Affinity Diagrams:
          How: Cluster design elements
          Why: the method is a useful way to identify connections between issues and reveal         innovation opportunities
·         Anthropometric Analysis:
          How: to use human proportion measurement data to check the coverage
·         Character Profiles:
          How: based on observations of real people, develop character profiles to represent archetypes and the details of their behavior of lifestyles
                          Why: useful way to bring a typical customer to life and to communicate the value of different concepts to various target groups
·         Secondary Research:
          How: review published articles, papers, and other pertinent documents to develop an informed point of view on the design issues
          Why: this is a useful way to ground observations and to develop a point of view on the state of the art
·         Long-Range Forecasts
          How: write up prose scenarios that describe how social and/or technological trends might influence people’s behavior
          Why: predicting changes in behavior, industry, or technology
·         Historical Analysis
          How: compare features of an industry, organization, group market segment
          Why: helps to identify trends and cycles of product use and customer behavior and to project those patterns into the future
·         Flow Analysis:
          How: represent the flow of information
          Why: useful for identifying bottlenecks
·         Cross-Cultural Comparisons:
          How: use personal or published accounts to reveal differences in behaviors
          Why: helps teams understand cultural behaviors
·         Competitive Product Survey:
          How: collect, compare
          Why: useful way to establish requirements
·         Cognitive Task Analysis:
          How: list and summarize all of a user’s sensory inputs
          Why: good for understanding user’s perceptual, attention, and informational needs and to identify bottlenecks where errors may occur
2.       Watch
·         Time-Lapse Video:
          How: set up a time-lapse camera to record movements in a space over an extended period of time
          Why: provides a longitudinal view of activity within a context
·         Still-Photo Survey:
          How: follow a planned shooting script
·         Social Network Mapping:
·         Rapid Ethnography- observe people’s actions
·         Personal Inventory-things that are important to you
·         Guided Tours
·         Fly on the Wall- observe and take no action
·         Shadowing
·         Behavioral Mapping
·         Behavioral Archaeology
3.       Ask
·         World-Concept Associations
·         Unfocused Group
·         Foreign Correspondents
·         Narration
·         Five Why’s
·         Extreme User Interviews
·         Draw the Experience
·         Cultural Probes
·         Cognitive Maps
·         Card Sort
4.       Try
·         Scenario Testing
·         Scale Modeling
40 Principles Of Innovations
1.       Segmentation (trucks, modular furniture, blinds)
2.       Taking out (robo-dog barking alarm)
                 

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