Reduce Your Footprint

A presentation I did for the 2010 Participatory Design Conference held in Sydney. This presentation focusses on the "Reduce Your Footprint" project and how we used agile and participatory design throughout the course of the project.

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1. Reduce Your Footprint Testing the release early: the “Release often” mantra Diana Mounter November 2010
2. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Considered design: our toolkit Human centred design Participatory design Agile methodologies Ethnographic research
3. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Considered design: our principles Design for people Always design in context Ask questions, reject assumptions Design with your community Break up problems into smaller ones Discover hidden opportunities Encourage risk taking and celebrate mistakes
4. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra It’s how we unravel a world of messy situations ...
5. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra ... to design something that works.
6. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra
7. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion A year of knowledge, experience, and insights to unravel.
8. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion A year of knowledge, experience, and insights to unravel.
9. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion Scope workshop
10. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion Scope workshop Synthesizing outcomes to define scope
11. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion Scope workshop Synthesizing outcomes to define scope Desk research
12. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion Scope workshop Synthesizing outcomes to define scope Desk research Observational research and interviews
13. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion Scope workshop Synthesizing outcomes to define scope Desk research Observational research and interviews Workshopping ideas with the communications team
14. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Research Gaining insights into behaviours in the home.
15. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Research Gaining insights into behaviours in the home.
16. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Research Gaining insights into behaviours in the home.
17. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Research Meeting residents, gaining insights through co-design activities
18. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra User Experience Strategy
19. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra User Experience Strategy “...my biggest fear is that it will be a huge success” - media officer
20. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra User Experience Strategy
21. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra User Experience Strategy Architecting the experience, a human-centered approach
22. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Keeping focus on the user
23. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Keeping focus on the user Sarah, the new mum.
24. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Keeping focus on the user Sarah, the new mum. “I can explore questions and associated answers from residents filtered by a topic...”
25. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Student Life Journeys UNSW Student Life - User Experience Strategy Iterative
26. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Student Life Journeys UNSW Student Life - User Experience Strategy Iterative
27. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Branding was a challenge “Please simplify the term - it is simply about reducing our impact...”
28. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra a/b testing
29. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Branding workshop
31. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Seeding content
32. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Survey Ambassador “It would be great if we could get an email when a new question is posted on the site”
33. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Stats
34. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Iterating on design/architecture
35. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Iterating on design/architecture
36. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Iterating on design/architecture
37. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Agile + participatory Transparency to the client and to the community Frequent inspection, feedback and review Allowed adaption Helped ensure we are and keep building the right thing.
38. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Release often Release, review, get feedback, improve.
39. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Release often Release, review, get feedback, improve.
40. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Results Client very happy, yet to market heavily.
41. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Results Lots of ! on composting and worm farms
42. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Results Council enjoying new platform to promote progress and events
43. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Looking ahead Improving design, marketing, making it social.
44. digitaleskimo.net digitaleskimo.tumblr.com slideshare.net/diana.mounter Diana is @broccolini
45. Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra
46. Thanks!