Research

Because we never know as much as we think we do.

Let's keep this brief, shall we?

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P.S. It is all contextualized around food.

Affinity Diagramming for Days

In past design work, affinity diagramming had been a contingency, used for objective, visual, information displays for my design teams to make decisions.

This was different. Pulling information from our contextual inquiry, my colleague, Emmy Beltre, and I generated 200 data points to begin laying out the problem space for food waste on a local food truck.

Cultural Probe

My team created a cultural probe basket to learn about the lifeworlds our participants experience. This is not to derive objective, measurable rationale. Rather, we wish to be inspired by what they might leave behind: records of their behavior, remnants of the humane amongst the artifacts.

Toolkit

My team married our efforts from the cultural probe with our Emotional and Behavioral Mapping Toolkit. Unlike our cultural probe, we seek quantifiable information, that which may be extrapolated unto a finite analyis.

Deployment

Gathering the materials from our deployment of the cultural probe and toolkits, our team draws insights and further examines the design space which our participants lie within.