Metaphor Cards
Difficulty Level:
Method Overview
Metaphor Cards is a toolkit that empowers designers to imagine future technologies and new ways of designing products to meet those futures.
Framework of ethics used:
deontological
pragmatist
Method Intentions:
Getting Started
You will need:
Materials: Make your metaphor cards using the template provided on the resource.
Participants: 5 participants and above
Steps (Logler et al., 2018):
- Familiarize
- Metaphorize
- Concretize
- Explore
Further Reading
Metaphor Cards: A How-to-Guide for Making and Using a Generative Metaphorical Design Toolkit
Citation
Logler, N., Yoo, D., & Friedman, B. (2018, June). Metaphor cards: A how-to-guide for making and using a generative metaphorical design toolkit. In Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1373-1386).
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