Abstract
In this study, we explore how designers made sense of user narratives that are generated through casual conversations in the context of discursively informed design. Our aim is to propose a method for utilizing these narratives in idea generation process. To do this, we designed a special process at which 13 designers voluntarily participated: First, we provided the designers with user narratives and gave them a design task we previously formulated. Then, we asked them to read and identify the contents that stimulated any design ideas accordingly. After that, we had conversations with the designers on the narratives, the design ideas they generated and how they related them altogether. Finally, we conducted a qualitative content analysis on the outcomes of this process and developed a method to help designers in systematically interpreting user narratives through four different categories of design implications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 133-152 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Design Journal |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Jan 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
This work was financially supported in part by TUBITAK under Grant 2214-A provided for Ozge Merzali Celikoglu. The first author would like to thank the faculty and staff of The Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania for the intellectual and friendly environment that significantly contributed to the progress of this research while she was a visiting scholar there.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania | |
| TUBITAK | 2214-A |
Keywords
- design methods
- discursively informed design
- user narratives
- user-centred design