Portfolio #1: Design theory and – methodology/information ecology

The course consists of the following (from course description):

This course is about interaction design and information architecture. It introduces theories and practices, and participants will learn how to develop a design concept and how to gestalt a concept as a prototype.(…). After the 6 weeks, the students will present the outcome of their collaborative design-work at a session, where invited representatives for stakeholders will be present. If possible, this session will also be attended by Renate Fruchter, director of the PBL Lab at Stanford University, with whom eLearningLab researchers collaborate on PBL didactics in virtual learning environments. The presentation session will be videotaped, and analysis of these video data will contribute to the Stanford-Aalborg research project.

In our work, we will follow the scrum way of working.

I find this course relevant, as I am particularly interested in designing prototypes and take the target group into consideration during the entire design process. My experience with design processes so far is mainly from the course system design, which I participated in at the 6^th semester. In that course we got some experience with the project manager role and we tried to create prototypes. We also worked a lot with creating a “common language” which is very important when people from different professions work together in the design process.

If I should mention a few things, that I think is my forces when it comes to design I would say that I am good at focusing at the user as the one who’s interests the designer have to take into consideration at every step of the design process. Furthermore I think that I have a good overview in at process where a lot of people and different groups of professions are working together.

My goals for this course is to get more experience with the design as a concept and not only design as a single thing. Furthermore I hope that I get a better understanding of how to take the target group into consideration in a design process. I can imagine that more goals and expectations for the course will occur as the course progresses. 

During the course I will write about results, experiences and thoughts…

For next class we are going to prepare this: