Deliverables

  • Design Process - The Double Diamond Model: The process of defining a solution to a design problem is always dependent of the design situation, complexion, and foreseen and unforeseen parameters. Me as a designer uses my skills and knowledges in a constant forward-moving manner to define what design, among millions of possible ones, that will be the best one for this assignment. To make sure that I test and try different paths, look at details and the whole, consider the user and the client and never throw away ideas to never be seen again throughout the process, there is methods and design techniques to guide me and make me go to all corners of my own possibilities.
  • The Double Diamond is the name of a design process model developed by the British Design Council in 2005. Divided into four phases — Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver — it is probably the best known and the most popular design process visualization. The two diamonds represent a process of exploring an issue more widely or deeply (divergent thinking) and then taking focused action (convergent thinking).
  • Discover: The first diamond helps people understand, rather than simply assume, what the problem is. During the first sprint of this project that I refer to as the problem discovery, I spend time researching climate change, climate fiction and AR. The climate impact is receiving a lot of attention at the moment, but what I felt they do not really succeed in conveying is a correct future diagnosis for where the world is heading and what power we have to effect it.
  • Define: The insights gathered in the discovery phase helped me look at the challenge and the project brief in a different way. As mentioned in the previous section problem discovery, I spend some time exploring various solutions by sketching different concepts. Without thinking about technical solution as it comes in the next step, develop, I focused on the design brief at hand when I iterated my solutions in an eraly stage of the design process. During the definition process the goal is to narrow down your possible solutions, which is why I ended up with the two different concepts that were presented on the previous page, The Virus Detector and the Endangered Species.
  • Develop: The second diamond encourages people to give different answers to the clearly defined problem, seeking inspiration from elsewhere and co-designing with a range of different people. By creating different types of prototypes with different prototyping tools, I went back into a divergent phase of the design process in order to explore different technical solutions. This gave me new thoughts and ideas regarding the concepts, and each prototype also raised new questions. Through the prototypes I got a different picture of the concept of what could work and what wouldn't work for this solution. The different prototypes are presented on the next page - prototypes.
  • Deliver: Delivery involves testing out different solutions at small-scale, rejecting those that will not work and improving the ones that will. This phase will be presented on the following pages where I start to develop my own AR prototypes, using video as a design material to evaluate the concepts and when I continue to iterate my ideas. The concepts have been revised after diskussions with the design team, and a number of ideas were ruled out through the testing of the prototypes, as I might have discovered some of my ideas would be too technically complex for me to solved with my corrent knowledge in prototyping using AR tools.
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