Design Methods
This famous tech idol is the subject of a wall mural in an incubator in the example Avle gave in the reading.
Who is Steve Jobs?
Designers create a rough draft of a design during this process.
What is prototyping?
Prototypes are both BLANK and BLANK.
What is material, social?
This country is currently remodeling old factory floors into collaborative office spaces, in the hopes to create more entrepreneurial-minded workers.
What is China?
Dr. Desjardins used this as a prototype for her dissertation.
What is a van?
These work structures are quintessential in the Silicon Valley method. Name three.
What are hackathons, incubators, startups, pitch concepts, lean management, accelerators?
This part of the process uses various methods to rapidly come up with different different design routes.
What is ideation?
This is what prototypes encourage.
What is play?
This country's technological industry is far separated from its central government.
What is Ghana?
Dr. Desjardins first introduced this in her “kitchen”, thinking it was going to be replaced but ended up keeping it because her design plan changed.
What is storage/shelving cart, kitchen cart, etc. ?
These four countries are the basis of Avle's reading.
What are China, Ghana, Jamaica, and the US?
This first step of this design process requires designers to ask questions about the context relating to the problem.
What is research?
This year was when the first report to speak about the value of prototypes was released.
When is 1990?
This country is using tech training programs and government programs to help foster tech-focused mindsets to curb youth unemployment.
What is Jamaica?
BLANK means the more you change a prototype, the more the prototype changes you.
What is reciprocal shaping?
China went from BLANK market, to BLANK market using the SV method.
What is producer, innovator?
After creating a prototype, designers then use this process to check the usability of their prototype.
What is testing?
Turner traced prototyping all the way back to this historical subject.
What is Puritan theology?
Many tech-entrepreneurs in this country are not full time, often supplementing with another job.
What is Ghana?
BLANK describes how the more you build something, the more it becomes your own.
What is growing uniqueness?
This problem was the largest negative effect of Chinese neighborhoods being transformed into makerspaces.
What is displacement?
By checking your bias and situating your position within the project, you participate in this step of the design process.
What is defining?
By answering these questions, we might finally begin to stop thinking of our BLANK as prototypes and of new BLANK as foreshadowings of a divine future.
What are lives, technologies?
This country promotes the ‘overnight success’ of mobile apps as a way to encourage people to join the tech industry.
What is Jamaica?
BLANK means designs are never completed.
What is consistently unfinished?