Do you think your project would benefit from a real world deployment? Why or why not? What obstacles and opportunities are there for design in the world and with participants related to your project?
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Nov 15
R7: Discount Techniques
Which of the “discount” techniques do you like best? Why? In what way could you use it in your own research, work, projects, etc.?
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Nov 08
R6: Brainstorming
Think about a time you have had a good experience with brainstorming and a time you have had a bad experience with it. Using the readings, explain what you think went well and what didn’t go well in those experiences. Be Specific!!!
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Nov 01
R5: Sketching
What lessons can be gleaned from your readings to explain why certain sketches were more successful than others in your past several sketching assignments? What techniques will you use going forward?
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Oct 25
R4: User Research Case Studies
How do you see the techniques in the papers you have read relate to the techniques you are using in your projects?
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Oct 19
R3: Ethnography and Contextual Inquiry
What are the differences and similarities in ethnography, contextual inquiry, and design ethnography? When would you use each?
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Oct 14
R2: Design and Usability from DFAB
Comment on the design and usability principles in the DFAB chapters. What do you agree with? Think is useful? What is missing? Out of date?
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Oct 02
Sketching Themes Posted
Hi everyone,
The sketching topics are posted on the “assignments” page. You will see that they can be open-ended, broadly themed, or quite specific depending on the week.
S1: Open-ended: Sketch three new improvements or design ideas to any problem you want
S2: Theme: Health: Sketch three ideas relating to health, wellness, rehabilitation, therapy, exercise, nutrition, etc.
S3: Theme: Recreation, Fitness & Sports: Sketch three ideas relating to playing sports, moving your body, exercising, spectator sports, outdoor activities, etc.
S4: Specific: Mobile Phone Re-use: Using today’s Huang & Truong reading as your user re-search, sketch three ideas for how you might re-use recycled cell phones
S5: Specific: Your Project: sketch three ideas for solutions to your team project’s design ques-tion based on your own user research
S6: Theme: Education: Sketch three ideas related to class lectures, assignment turn-ins, elementary school education, classroom designs, special education, etc.
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Oct 02
R1: Interactions and Paradigms
Given what you read in DFAB, what do you think of the evolution of computing interaction models? What do you think is the next wave? (Note: these questions took 25 words…. so that means, your response to my post should be around 10 to 20 times as long at the most… which is not much text. Don’t overdo it 
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Sep 13
Welcome!
Welcome to Informatics 231 for the fall quarter! I am excited for a great class this year. Please check this website regularly for updates to course content and to post your reading reflections.
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