Multi-Lifespan Co-Design
Difficulty Level:
Method Overview
The Multi-Lifespan Co-Design is a method designed to help practitioners actualize the ideas envisioned from the multi-lifespan timeline activities.
Framework of ethics used:
consequentialist
Method Intentions:
Getting Started
You will need:
Materials: Large paper, spec sheets, and colored pens
Participants: Work in group of 3 to 4 participants
Steps (Citation):
- Generate stories and sketches based on the ideas from multi-lifespan timeline
- Imagine a user group, purpose, and use case
- Create design prototypes
- Share with the larger group for discussions
Further Reading
Citation
Yoo, D., Derthick, K., Ghassemian, S., Hakizimana, J., Gill, B., & Friedman, B. (2016, May). Multi-lifespan design thinking: two methods and a case study with the Rwandan diaspora. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 4423-4434)
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