brainstorming

Try out my Experience Design Ideation Tool!

Hello fellow designers, 

I am in the final semester of my Master's program at Indiana University in Human Computer Interaction Design. As part of my thesis, I have developed an ideation tool to help with that elusive quality of experience. 

Any designers that are in the ideation phase of a project, please try out this tool! 

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Requirements Elicitation Techniques

Hello everyone,

When it comes to "Requirements Elicitation Techniques" interviews and survey methods are given great importance but somehow i feel those are general methods which does not correlate in the field of computing. Are observation methods like protocol analysis, social analysis and ethnography much better then traditional interview and survey method?

Please share your views which one worked better for you.

Thank you

Kishan

Looking for creative ways to run a Data Analysis & Brainstorming session

I'm planning a 3 hour meeting for my team to:
- read through stories of our 3 field observations and 7-8 phone
interviews and identify tasks, pain points, and insights
- build an affinity diagram
- brainstorm design ideas for our product (which we don't know
anything about yet)

This is a new team and this is our first project together. I've run
similar sessions in the past with other teams (not covering so much
though), but I'd like to learn more about how other people are
running sessions like these and if anyone has any good tips/advice to
ensure success.

Felt boards

In the initial stages of brainstorming design, specifically when it comes to
reactive changes to the interface, I'm commonly sketching boxes and buttons
on graph paper or a white board.

Then I started thinking about the playroom I had as a child, and we had a
big felt board down there with a large box of various different colours of
felt dogs, flowers, birds, trees etc.

Students ask: how do you brainstorm?

I’m part of a group of 4th year students trying to develop a capture
and access tool to help enhance the productivity of a team’s creative
process. For better or worse, we’ve decided to target Interaction
Designers for our initial development. So, we were hoping that some
of you might have the time to answer some questions about how you get
your brainstorming done:

1) How do you do your brainstorming individually? Ie. Scribbles
on paper, post-it notes stuck to walls.

2) How do you do your brainstorming as a group? Ie.