Participatory Design Teaching Material

Below you will find information pertaining to the importance of teaching Participatory Design. Three of the important aspects of PD are also discussed. These three aspects are ethnographic techniques, modeling the data collected from the ethnographic research, and creating paper prototypes. Sample teaching materials for conducting a semester long class of this type is also included.

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Why Teach PD?

How do you teach PD?

Contextual Inquiry- Ethnographic Skills

Modeling - Interpretation of the Data

Prototyping

Example Materials

Semester Project