Co-Designthe creativity of designers and people not trained in design working together in the design development process

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ROLE OF END USERS In expert mind-set, people are considered as subjects, users, consumers, etc., on the other hand, in participatory mind-set, people are considered as true experts in domains of experience and co-creator in design process.

Sanders, 2008; Sanders & Chan, 2007

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TRADITIONAL APPROACH

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RESEARCHERUSER DESIGNER

PARTICIPATORY APPROACH

RESEARCHER

USER

DESIGNER

Kullanıcı Deneyimi Tasarımı Tasarım Araştırması4

Workshops

WORKSHOPS You can bring your end users, stakeholdes, designers, developers, sales and marketing people etc., together and make them shape your product with right tools and techniques.

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In early stages, projective techniques like collage, drawing, diagramming and tex-based exercises to enable participants to express their thoughts, feelings, and wants. In later stages, constructive techniques focusing on exercises enabling participants to design and create concepts

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ANATOMY OF A WORKSHOP Workshops are conducted with the help of numerous genertive ideation exercises. The selection of exercises for a specific workshop is made after preparation process to answer project needs.

The common order of a workshop can be described as Opening, Shaping(ideas or products), Evaluation

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An example of an opening exercise. Site content was given to the user in small design modules and user was asked to form a homepage answers his needs. (Sil Method)

Another example of an opening exercise. Preliminary concepts deriven from research findings were given to the participants as cards and they were asked to bring the product to a step further.

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ANATOMY OF A WORKSHOP Workshops are conducted with the help of numerous genertive ideation exercises. The selection of exercises for a specific workshop is made after preparation process to answer project needs.

The common order of a workshop can be described as Opening, Shaping(ideas or products), Evaluation

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An example of a shaping exercise. Here, participants are building a flow with their designs.

Another example of a shaping exercise. Participants are generating ideas according to the customer journey maps they created.

ANATOMY OF A WORKSHOP Workshops are conducted with the help of numerous genertive ideation exercises. The selection of exercises for a specific workshop is made after preparation process to answer project needs.

The common order of a workshop can be described as Opening, Shaping(ideas or products), Closing/Evaluation

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An example of a closing exercise. Participants were asked to vote and eliminate the ideas.

An example of an opening exercise. Participants were asked to develop empathy with the end users. (Empathy Maps)

ANATOMY OF A WORKSHOP Workshops are conducted with the help of numerous genertive ideation exercises. The selection of exercises for a specific workshop is made after preparation process to answer project needs.

The common order of a workshop can be described as Opening, Shaping(ideas or products), Closing/Evaluation

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An example of a shaping exercise. Participants are generating ideas for a chosen concept.

An example of a shaping exercise. Participants were asked to design the environment of the product.