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Bonus: Presentation handout

After chatting with my tutor about the challenges of squeezing everything in within a ten minute window, we discussed the fact that offering a handout might be a nice way of both sharing additional information for those who are interested, … Continue reading

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Final presentation slides (and alt text)

I like to design most presentations (particularly those delivered to my students), such that, if for some reason the viewer needs to explore the presentation without me being present to deliver it, they can still gather the salient points from … Continue reading

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Final presentation video recordings

The final part of the Action Research Project is presenting our research, both in person and online. This is not without its challenges, which predominantly in my case, was cramming everything in within our 10 minute timeframe. It can be … Continue reading

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Personal project reflections

Overall I am very pleased with the work undertaken on this project, and what both I and my course team have learned from this body of research. I feel lucky that I had undertaken this kind of research before in … Continue reading

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Intervention in action

On Tuesday 3rd, we ran our first edition of Noodle Socials, the aims of which are outlined in my previous blog. My course leader very kindly obtained a prolific quantity of noodles in Amazon’s black Friday sales, which will be … Continue reading

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‘How might we’s’ — overview and development into ideation

For this next stage of analysis and ideation I am largely following established processes within the fields of UX design, service design and human centred design, which I have experience using both in industry and academically. (These are methodologies which … Continue reading

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Research interview #4 (student group interview) summary and key insights

I decided to run my student interviews as a single group interview rather than as four individual interviews. This was both for practical reasons (time and scheduling), but also because I was interested in how the students would bounce ideas … Continue reading

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Research interview #3 summary and key insights

There was lots to think about and learn in this great interview with another course leader (whose course is a very similar size and has a similar amount of studio space to ours). My reason for interviewing this course leader … Continue reading

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Research workshop summary and key insights

I ran the workshop on Tuesday November 5th and was really pleased with how it went and the conversations that ensued. Of my 23 first year students, I had around 16 in the room, and around 8 or 9 chose … Continue reading

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Research workshop planning

Here I will outline my plans for the student workshop, in which my first year students are invited to collaborate in exploring ideas around working spaces and what makes a good studio. I aim to utilise UX processes and ideas … Continue reading

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