Kapow! Participant Exercises for Powerful Research
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TODAY WE WILL
LOOK
• Ways to explore experience
• How our minds work
• How exercises fit in
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LOOK EXPLORE
TODAY WE WILL
• Types of exercises
• What they’re good for
• Examples
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LOOK EXPLOREDRAFT
REVISE
PILOT
• Draft exercises
• Pilot them
• Revise based on feedback
TODAY WE WILL
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LOOK EXPLOREDRAFT
REVISE
PILOT SHARE
• Observations and a-ha’s
TODAY WE WILL
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INTERVIEW A NEIGHBOR:
• Name
• Where they are from
• a favorite thing to cook OR eat
• fantasy vacation (to where? to do what?)
LET’S BREAK THE ICE
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YOU’LL INTRODUCE YOUR NEIGHBOR TO THE ROOM.
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LET’S LOOK AT 3 HIGH-LEVEL CHUNKS
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HOW TO GET DEEPER RESPONSES
HOW OUR MINDS WORKWAYS TO EXPLORE
EXPERIENCE
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• Interview
• Survey
WAYS TO EXPLORE EXPERIENCE
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SAY
MAKEDO • Creative exercises
• Expressive exercises
• Researcher observation
• Participant observation
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• Interview
• Survey
WAYS TO EXPLORE EXPERIENCE
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SAY
MAKEDO • Creative exercises
• Expressive exercises
• Researcher observation
• Participant observation
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• Interview
• Survey
WAYS TO EXPLORE EXPERIENCE
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SAY
MAKEDO • Creative exercises
• Expressive exercises
• Researcher as observer
• Participant as observer
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• Interview
• Survey
WAYS TO EXPLORE EXPERIENCE
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SAY
MAKEDO • Creative exercises
• Expressive exercises
• Researcher observation
• Participant observation
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• Interview
• Survey
WAYS TO EXPLORE EXPERIENCE
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SAY
MAKEDO
Participatory exercises
• Researcher observation
• Participant observation • Creative exercises
• Expressive exercises
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HOW OUR MINDS WORK
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CAN & WILL IT BE SAID? LAYERS OF RESPONSE
ADAPTED FROM COOPER & BRANTHWAITE
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HOW OUR MINDS WORK
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P U B L I C
P R I V A T E
E A S Y
T O
S A Y
H A R D
T O
S A Y
A W A R E
U N A W A R E
SPONTANEOUS
RATIONAL
PERSONAL, TACIT, LATENT
INTUITIVE
IMAGINATIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
REPRESSED
CAN & WILL IT BE SAID? LAYERS OF RESPONSE
ADAPTED FROM COOPER & BRANTHWAITE
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LEAVE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS
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P U B L I C
P R I V A T E
SPONTANEOUS
RATIONAL
PERSONAL, TACIT, LATENT
INTUITIVE
IMAGINATIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
REPRESSED
HOW OUR MINDS WORK
CAN & WILL IT BE SAID? LAYERS OF RESPONSE
E A S Y
T O
S A Y
H A R D
T O
S A Y
A W A R E
U N A W A R E
ADAPTED FROM COOPER & BRANTHWAITE
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DIRECT QUESTIONS
LEAVE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS
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P U B L I C
P R I V A T E
SPONTANEOUS
RATIONAL
PERSONAL, TACIT, LATENT
INTUITIVE
IMAGINATIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
REPRESSED
HOW OUR MINDS WORK
CAN & WILL IT BE SAID? LAYERS OF RESPONSE
A W A R E
U N A W A R E
E A S Y
T O
S A Y
H A R D
T O
S A Y
ADAPTED FROM COOPER & BRANTHWAITE
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EXERCISES
DIRECT QUESTIONS
LEAVE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS
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P U B L I C
P R I V A T E
SPONTANEOUS
RATIONAL
PERSONAL, TACIT, LATENT
INTUITIVE
IMAGINATIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
REPRESSED
HOW OUR MINDS WORK
CAN & WILL IT BE SAID? LAYERS OF RESPONSE
E A S Y
T O
S A Y
H A R D
T O
S A Y
A W A R E
U N A W A R E
ADAPTED FROM COOPER & BRANTHWAITE
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HOW TO GET DEEPER RESPONSES
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• Reported behavior
• Opinions and beliefs
• Illustrative stories
• Expectations and desires
DIRECT QUESTIONS
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HOW TO GET DEEPER RESPONSES
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• Help participants remember, select, talk about and interpret past events
• Help participants become aware of and describe behavior, thoughts and feelings
(these are also called enabling exercises)
EXPRESSIVE EXERCISES
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HOW TO GET DEEPER RESPONSES
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• Help participants talk about sensitive topics
• Help participants express abstract feelings and thoughts
(these are also called projective exercises)
CREATIVE EXERCISES
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LET’S TAKE IT STEP BY STEP
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW DRAFT
PILOT REVISE COLLECT ANALYZE
PLANNING:
SHARE REFLECTDOING:
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COLLECT
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW DRAFT PILOT REVISE
YOU’VE BEEN HIRED!
REFLECTANALYZE SHARE
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TO UNCOVER POSSIBLE NEW PRODUCTS OR SERVICES MEANINGFUL TO PET OWNERS
YOU’VE BEEN HIRED!
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SCENARIO EXPAND
PET OWNERSHIP IS ALL ABOUT…
COLLECTNARROW DRAFT PILOT REVISE REFLECTANALYZE SHARE
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW
WORKSHEET WITH A PARTNER (15 MIN)
COLLECTDRAFT PILOT REVISE REFLECTANALYZE SHARE
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW DRAFT
FIRST ALL THE EXERCISE TYPES AND THEN WE DRAFT
COLLECTPILOT REVISE REFLECTANALYZE SHARE
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TYPES OF EXERCISES
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LIST MAD LIB STORY TRACK SORT
PLAYMAPDIAGRAMMAKE ?
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Collecting elements of a category (e.g. “types of meals I cook”)
• Gathering feelings and needs around a topic
• Compiling inventories (e.g. “What’s in my bathroom cabinet”)
• Capturing schedules
• Lists can be lower effort for participants to complete but yield rich discussion. Good as an opening exercise.
LIST
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LIST
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List combined with Diagram to show priority of elements—inner circle is higher priority
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LIST
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from Afshan Amjad’s research with students about their school experiences before & after immigration.
http://www.academia.edu/1473148/Interviewing_Participants_About_Past_Events_The_Helpful_Role_of_Pre-Interview_Activities
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Eliciting associations, desires, preferences, values
• Gathering participant’s own words around a prompt to help with evaluating the symbolic meanings associated with the topic
• Can be used to assess motivations and attitudes
• Good bang for the buck— these are easier to create and offer high value results!
MAD LIB
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(AKA Sentence Completion)
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MAD LIB
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(AKA Sentence Completion)
from Sentence Completion for Evaluating
Symbolic Meaning by Kujala and Nurkka, 2012
http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/
IJDesign/article/view/1166/523
Nice projective question! —>
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MAD LIB
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(AKA Sentence Completion)
First time home buying experience:
left side provides “get to know you” material
expectations vs reality
analogies
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MAD LIB
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Mad Lib combined with sketch to understand the role of cash relative to digital payments
(AKA Sentence Completion)
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Learning about negative/positive events
• Exploring a category—understanding perspectives and values around a topic
• Gathering lessons learned
• These are best as solo-work to enable enough time for reflection.
FORMATS TO CONSIDER:
• Letters to myself (past self/future self)
• Mini-stories: “tell about a time when…”
• Photo story
STORY
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STORY
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Snags & Delights are mini-stories about negative and positive experiences.
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STORY
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Letter to My Younger Self helps to understand the impact of past choices on a participant’s current state
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Recording behavior, routines, feelings over time
• Gathering photos from participant POV—empowers your participants!
• Enabling awareness of automatic behavior around a topic
• Good platform for comparing moments (e.g. does this log reflect what is normal?)
FORMAT VARIABLES TO CONSIDER:
• Diaries & calendars
• Analog or digital
• Any time period, brief or lengthy!
TRACK
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TRACK
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30 day Mood Calendar to track emotions,
key moments, and provide a platform for follow-up discussion.
Researcher’s post-it notes from —> follow-up conversation
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TRACK
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dscout snippet for week long diary using
a smart phone to log moments
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TRACK
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Visual story book of one dinner - this project happened before smart phones. I like that it breaks down a 1 - 2 hour
event into multiple stages to gather great process details. Participants took
10 - 15 photos over the course of the one special dinner.
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Identifying and exploring categories
• Understanding relationships among elements - leads to uncovering mental models
• Learning about preferences and priorities (when participants rank order elements)
• Remembering stories (when participants select or sort images)
• Always collaborative to create a deck of triggers/images — it helps eliminate gaps in your individual thinking
SORT
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SORT
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An elegant content sort from userresearch.blog.gov.uk
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SORT
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Photo deck to choose images that best fit certain
criteria. (This was an exercise to help participants practice developing a design vocabulary so they
could react to unbranded website designs on the basis of imagery, color, and font only.)
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SORT
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Scenario-based sort with multiple decks:
big cards with scenario elements and small cards with social media elements
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Using metaphors & analogies to express hard-to-articulate ideas
• Capturing moods & feelings
• Generating future scenarios
• Participants need lots of time to create and explain - do not rush!
FORMATS TO CONSIDER:
• Drawings
• Collage
• Sculpture, models
• Building (e.g. with Legos or cut-outs/pieces made by you)
MAKE
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MAKE
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Drawing to express how it feels to have family in different countries.
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MAKE
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Cut-outs of design elements for participants to use to build paper prototypes, prioritize
features, add new features, etc.
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DIAGRAM
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Understanding timelines and steps in a process
• Looking at relationships (e.g. people, objects, activities)
• Exploring conceptual categories
• Use simple Venns, 2x2s and linear scales as frameworks
• Unless you know the user’s native terms, resist using internal labels on process steps—be vague (e.g. “how it begins”)
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DIAGRAM
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How a teacher feels over the course
of an assignment
This is an example of a time when we
did know the user’s vocabulary and put specific labels on the journey.
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DIAGRAM
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Venn diagram to categorize which channel should be used for each need (Sort hybrid)
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Understanding relationships among elements in a category
• Comparing activities to locations
Maps provide a good platform for creating multiple layers of meaning. Create ways to code and annotate the base layer in order to explore:
• likes/dislikes/feelings
• channel use
• purpose/role of mapped items
• priority of mapped items
MAP
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MAP
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Social media tools this participant uses, the
importance of each, how each is engaged with, the purpose of each and how she controls interactions among them.
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MAP
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Maps are a form of diagrams but deserve to be recognized as a unique form…this one is nice
because it is flexible to accommodate each participant’s story and has many layers of
information (see left column).
Follow the participant’s lead on the narrative. Go back to add layer details in one fell swoop
(e.g. timing, emotions, roles—use post-its if your map base gets too crowded)
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MAP
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Map of accounts and color-coded channel pathways for how money enters the system and
moves within the system.
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WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR:
• Exploring important scenarios - and noticing emotions/assumptions in scenarios
• Lessening pressure around sensitive topics
• Gathering values, norms, rules, and native language
• Exploring solution spaces
FORMATS TO CONSIDER:
• Role playing
• Games
PLAY
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PLAY
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Role-play moderating for a difficult
topic from userresearch.blog.gov.uk
instead of the participant having to take on a “depressing role”, the
researcher played that part and the participant played the role of family
member or friend to coach the researcher in what to do to meet his needs on the website.
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PLAY
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Game for community building from Thesis Chronicle,
https://thesischronicle.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/change-by-design-kenya/
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW DRAFT
LET’S DRAFT TOGETHER
COLLECTPILOT REVISE REFLECTANALYZE SHARE
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NOW YOU DRAFT! (33 MIN)
• Sketch - use a whole page per exercise
• Try multiple versions or approaches
• Avoid perfectionism
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW DRAFT PILOT REVISE
TIME TO PILOT! 10 (X2) MIN FOR EACH TEAM 10 MIN TO GIVE FEEDBACK
30 MIN TOTAL
COLLECT REFLECTANALYZE SHARE
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW DRAFT PILOT REVISE
REVISE (30 MIN)
• Fix confusing instructions
• Look for opportunities to add layers for more depth
• Create new exercises if you didn’t like the result you got
COLLECT REFLECTANALYZE SHARE
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SCENARIO EXPAND NARROW DRAFT PILOT COLLECT REFLECTANALYZE SHAREREVISE
MORE RESEARCH 15 MIN FOR EACH TEAM
30 MIN TOTAL
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AN INTERLUDE ABOUT ANALYSIS AND OTHER THINGS NOT YET
COVERED…
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EXERCISES GET FIVE MAIN DATA TYPES:
• Catalog-able things: inventories, types, resources, tools, needs, etc. It can be helpful for your stakeholders to learn by seeing a “set” of information (tell meal types story here.)
• Behavior and process: your participants’ routines, the order of steps, variations, relationships among the parts of processes. This is the stuff of journey maps.
• Feelings and desires. This helps you develop empathy in yourself and stakeholders.
• Mental model ingredients: needs, motivations, attitudes, preferences, roles
• High octane illustrative quotes and stories so you can tell a riveting tale.
WHAT DATA TO EXPECT
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PATTERN IDENTIFICATION IS FUN & E-Z WITH ARTIFACTS!
• Try starting with a framework (AEIOU, POEMS, etc) to look for commonalities and differences among the artifacts. Sorting into groups is half the battle. (Effectively, truly naming what is going on in the groups is the other half of the battle.)
• Language/text analysis plays a big part—tag repeating words and language motifs.
• Make a consolidated master.
• It’s ok to keep emotional data simple - it can often speak for itself with just a little category framing from you.
• Weirdly, sometimes you don’t do analysis on the exercise artifact itself if it was used in an organizational way, meaning it helped you track and structure a complex conversation. So, if the resulting artifacts are wildly divergent and not catalog-able, then don’t stress.
WORKING WITH EXERCISE DATA
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GET IMMERSIVE:
• Consider a science fair (analog or digital)
• Ask for engagement (e.g. “who are you like, who are you unlike?)
• Show artifacts in your deliverables
SHARING WITH STAKEHOLDERS
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FULLY DIGITAL OR PARTIALLY ANALOG
• google slides and google docs are your friends
• consider an overhead projector
WHAT ABOUT REMOTE EXERCISES?
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• Instructions are critical when participants are handling exercises on their own. Triple check how the instructions are interpreted before you send to real participants.
• Keep instructions short. Don’t layer on a lot of steps in pre-work. Save exploring additional layers for the debrief conversation. In-person exercises can more easily have many layers because the moderator is there to manage the complexity.
• Plan your follow up questions carefully—the exercise isn’t fully prepared until you know what to probe on, listen for, and layer on during follow up conversation.
• Try sending pre-work as simple email prompts or in a google form—exercises do not have to be visually designed to be effective! Lists, mad-libs & stories require fewer visuals.
• In-person maps and diagrams can start with a blank page, as long as you have your checklist of elements to layer on and you have practiced how to guide the build-up of info.
CONSIDERATIONS FOR PRE-WORK VS. IN-PERSON
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ANALYZE (20 MIN) WHAT’S YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR THE
DECISION THAT CLIENT NEEDS TO MAKE?
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SHARE OUT:
• THE DECISION YOU’RE HELPING THE CLIENT MAKE • 1 0R 2 NEAT-O THINGS YOU FOUND • YOUR RECOMMENDATION
SINCE YOU ARE “SATISFICING" TODAY, JUST DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH THE DATA AND TIME THAT YOU’VE GOT! IT WILL BE JUST RIGHT. :-)
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WHAT DID YOU NOTICE?
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