September 30th, 2008
Situation
- At the top of a chart, you have a situation
- As a designer, you want to change it
- As a researcher, you want to know more about it
- Can’t see all of it at once!
- So,
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September 23rd, 2008
What’s Critical!
The Pitch
- A presentation that you will give to a group of people
- Investors
- Friends
- Your Mom (Marty is talking about our moms =( )
- Someone who will contribute in some way
- Story
- “The
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September 23rd, 2008
Based on the organization you pick, you can start to work with this group
You have to pick some of the ways to share the
Design Theory Model
- Last year, other groups chose…
- Parents
- Kids
- Non-Profit
- Teachers
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September 16th, 2008
Project Management
- Decider Protocols
- How do you have good decision making protocols on a team?
- The problem here… is that there isn’t anyone to argue with. Just yourself!
- So, the question arises, how do you manage such a
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September 16th, 2008
So we flew to Boston last week on US Air. I have to say, I was pretty dissapointed. In a word, both the return and outgoing flights, were smelly.
First of all, I got to sit right on top of…
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September 16th, 2008
Each of these traditions has its own measure of success, value system, beliefs, etc.
When someone wants to approach the
What if we try to understand design as its own tradition?
- Traditions
- Science
- Engineering
- Art
- Religion
- Politics
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September 10th, 2008
So I’m staying at the West in downtown-ish Boston. Was hoping to get out and take a look around the city a bit, but I didn’t really have time to look at whats in the area ahead of time, and…
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September 9th, 2008
- What makes a good topic
- Important to have a title early
- Chapter: Review of the Literature in Research Design
- Criteria
- Passionate (When you think about a couple topics, which one brings you the most energy?) – There’s
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September 9th, 2008
Purpose of the course: “Try to understand design in the best possible way.” My own private design identity.
Friedman – Theory construction in design research: criteria: approaches, and methods
Design Theory
- Hypothesis
What is a theory?
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