this is my space of thoughts, ideas, qoutes and pictures.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
My Design Ethnography experience, who I am, where I come from and where I am going…
I am new to the field of Design Ethnography, so I am continually trying to define what the field means to me. When Tye Rattenbury, from PAPR at Intel, came to a session in Dundee we were set the task of creating a Pecha Kucha, 5 powerpoint slides 20s each, to explain where we come from, what design ethnography means to us and where we think it is going as a field.
The four spaces of studio life:
Ping Pong table: The multifunctional play and work table.
Walls: The home of our post it note sessions and inspirational quotes.
Computer table: Our access to the outside world and creativity making hub.
Sofa space: My favourite space, the place where we eat, drink, and get chatting.
Just finished an digital and real world ethnographic study of the Blogosphere, so we decided to coin a new term.
Blographer:
Someone who uses the writings on a blog to influence his or her interpretation of the world.
BLOGGER + ETHNOGRAPHER = BLOGRAPHER
Do you study the world through the writings on blogs? It doesn’t matter if you are reading a blog or writing blog, you can be a blographer.
Blogging and reading blogs are behaviors where motivations and outcomes are unique to each individual, but the effect is to expand one’s perception of the world around them and participate in it.
Bloggers write, and by “write” we mean they write regular online entries chronicling their ideas, beliefs, and points of view on the world.
Ethnographers write, and by “write” we mean they create verbal compositions about the participatory immersive interactions that their fieldwork is based upon.
-Term by Alicia Dudek -
Qualitative data plotting on X-Y axis used in order to create graphical abstractions of in depth ethnographic data OR a map of stories.
Above are the words of Alicia, my partner for this project, explaining the current activity which was transforming ethnographic field notes to ethnographic data.
So Philip Joe, introduced not just squares but also whiteboards.
With that was the lessons:
- Put pen to paper - write it down
- Show people - get it out there
- Do not be precious with ideas - throw them away
- Share ideas by sketching - quick, easy, accessible
I find myself thinking in squares. Instead of thinking outside the box, I now think my thoughts and use the box to contain them. It allows to me to revisit, in a new way.
This obsession has developed since we had a session with a man called Philip Joe, his title is User Experience Architect at Microsoft, for me he is the man that structured my notebook and my thinking.
Thank you Philip Joe.
In response to the government planning to switchover radio transmissions from analogue to Digital in 2014, I am part of a group designing a new digital radio for older people. So today was activity day in HCI (Human Computer Interaction), we set up two activities with our user group, older people, and got down to it. It was a lot of fun, as well as many interesting points being raised.
