Design with Intent

Method Overview

Design with Intent is a toolkit card deck and worksheet set, designed for a team of practitioners to approach design and research through intentional exploration of people’s behavior across digital and physical spaces and objects.

Getting Started

Materials: Downloadable card deck

Participants: Individual/Team(1-40 Participants)

Steps: (from the method website)

1. Lay out all the cards, grouped by lens (or each of the worksheets)
2. Go through each lens identifying whether the questions inspire any concepts for addressing your problem
3. A group discussion can unify, organize, and refine the ideas. 
4. As a group analyze existing examples by using patterns to draw out some behavior-influencing principles behind products, services, or environments you are familiar with
5. Pick two random patterns and think about the possibilities of applying the ideas to your problem, both individually and together.