In this paper, I discuss design workbooks, collections of design proposals and related materials, both as a method for design and as a design methodology. In considering them as a method, I describe a number of examples of design workbooks we have developed in our studio and describe some of the practical techniques we have used in developing them. More fundamentally, I discuss design workbooks as embodiments of a methodological approach which recognises that ideas may emerge slowly over time, that important issues and perspectives may emerge from multiple concrete ideas, potentially generated by multiple members of a team, rather than being theory-driven, and that maintaining the provisionality and vagueness of early proposals can be useful in supporting a quasi-participatory design approach that allows participants to interpret, react to and elaborate upon the ideas they present. Copyright 2011 ACM.
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Gaver, W. (2011). Making spaces: How design workbooks work. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings (pp. 1551–1560). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979169
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