1. Sketching 2 Using Sketching in Design
HCDE 418
Class materials:
-IDEO method cards
-projector
-laptop

2. Agenda Announcements STC Presentation xxx Sketching Critiques
5 minutes
STC Presentation xxx
10 minutes xxx
Sketching Critiques
20 minutes
Lecture – Sketching as Brainstorming
15 minutes
Break
10 minutes
Lecture – Sharing and Critiquing Sketches
35 minutes
Debrief & Next Class

3. Announcements Upcoming work
Your questions, comments, issues, appreciations?
Upcoming work
Read: Truong 2006, Buxton pp (next week)
1.5 Discussion board posts
P2: Contextual Inquiry & Survey
Due Today at 5:00 P.M.
P3: Personas and Scenarios
Due Tuesday at 5:00 P.M.

4. Announcements A1 Grades completed & feedback Thursday, Oct. 29
Group Project Time

5. STC Presentation
10 minutes

6. Sketching Critiques
20 minutes

7. Sketching Critiques Count off by numbers
Take turns showing off your 3 sketches with each other
Each critic should offer advice and feedback about the idea
Sketcher: take notes about what feedback was offered
Critic: be critical, but constructive and courteous!
Each critic should sign the page after the sketches and date it with today’s date

8. Lecture
15 minutes

9. Sketching during Brainstorming
The quickness and timeliness requirement of sketches make them very useful during brainstorming
The idea is to generate as many ideas as possible
Both “good” and “silly” ideas are welcome
Avoid critiquing at this point

10. Creativity

11. How to inspire creativity?
Immerse yourself in the world for which you’re designing
Generate ideas constantly
Keep a book, you never know when you’re going to be inspired
Sketch your vague ideas to think through them more clearly

12. How to inspire creativity?
Explain your ideas to others regularly
Feedback from others can inspire new ideas
But make sure you don’t get stifled by it
Take an outsider’s perspective on something you know
Take an insider’s perspective on something you don’t know
Take risks!
Early in the design process, it won’t hurt

13. Think of the Children
Children are creative because they don’t know the rules, and thus break them all the time
Children don’t know the consequences, and thus are more likely to take risks

14. Other ideas Take things from one domain and try them in another
Talk with other creative people
Leave your comfort zone
Be passionate about the topic

15. Sharing Ideas
Consider posting sketches around your workspace for inspiration and feedback
Portfolio Wall
CoWall
Tech Box
Cabinet

16. Brainstorming Working in groups is essential to design
Brainstorming can be fun and fruitful
Keep the results of your user research handy during the process
E.g., personas, scenarios, lists of design requirements

17. Class will resume in minute(s)
BREAK
Class will resume in minute(s) 3 2 1 4 6 10 9 8 7 5

18. Lecture
35 minutes

19. Sketching Critiques
Reflection on the process so far?

20. Why it’s important Ideas are both good and bad
Both are useful in design
By making clear what’s a bad design, we can avoid actually implementing it
Collectively, feedback can turn a good idea into a great idea
Filtering
Brainstorming generates too many ideas to actually implement

21. How to do it? Talk about the strengths of the idea
Talk about the weaknesses
Discuss the feasibility of it
Discuss the originality of it
Sort into piles of good, okay, and not possible

22. Practice
Sketches generated from a brainstorm session with my directed research group
Topic: Technology that could support healthy sleep behaviors

23. Use this method for your project
You’ll be doing this process for P4
Generate lots of ideas through brainstorming and sketching
Use the critique process to filter and select the best ideas
P4 description posted this weekend
Next Thursday might be a good time to do this

24. Next Class Topics Tuesday, Oct. 27th Reading Assignment for Week 5
Scenarios & Storyboards
Reading Assignment for Week 5
Truong, et al., 2006
Sketching User Experiences, pp
P3 due Tuesday, Oct. 27th