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.
Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Considered design: our toolkit Human centred design Participatory design Agile methodologies Ethnographic research
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
Reduce Your Footprint - Release often mantra Immersion Scope workshop Synthesizing outcomes to define scope Desk research Observational research and interviews
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
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...”
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.