FLOW - Tangible Design Process
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The document describes a tangible tool called "Flow-Tangible Process" that uses different sized and colored pieces and a writable magnetic board to help teams visualize and discuss project processes. The pieces can be flexibly connected on the board in various configurations to represent different elements of a project process like phases, activities, outcomes, and deadlines. The tool allows for easy reconfiguration of the project flow through hands-on manipulation of the tangible pieces during team discussions.
FLOW - Tangible Design Process
- 1. T a n g i b l e P r o c e s s A tangible tool to help teamworks to build and visualize project processes. Composed by a set of tools with different sizes and colors, the “Flow-Tangible IT Product Design 2013 process” intends to provide discussions and thinking by hands. Behnam Chaboki Claudiu Serban Patrícia Lima With a writeable surface and made out of magnets, all the pieces are flexible Robin Oorschot| Robb Mitchell (supervisior) enough to be easily connected to the board, reaching different results.
- 2. "A design method is a toothbrush. likelikes to have one, but no one wants to Everyone use somebody else's." John Zimmerman
- 3. SAMPLE OF DESIGN PROCESSES *The Design Space (PhD dissertation) Christopher Robert Heape
- 4. Elements of a process (guide-lines) Milestones Themes Divergence/Convergence Outcomes
- 5. y di scus sions ke Tangibility. Flexibility Design Space + Process Prescriptive x Descriptive
- 6. The developed Model board colorful pieces (with three different sizes) transparent connectors With a writable surface, all the pieces are flexible enough to contain different levels of information. Made with magnets, they are all also easily connected to the board - which can be attached to the wall.
- 7. How it works As easy as it sounds, it is possible to unfold the magnetic board (from a A3 format) up to a A1 size.
- 8. Throughout discussions between the team workers, the pieces are chosen accordingly to needs of the project. For instance: the transparent pieces may represent the phases of the project (“Concepting”, “Prototyping”, etc.) whilst the red big pieces might be the activities of the phases. The yellow ones might be the outcomes or deliverables of each phase while the very small pieces may contain the deadlines, and so on.
- 9. Not necessarily after labeling colors and shapes, all the pieces are connected between themselves and the board. They can be placed on top of each other as well as underneath. Again, this all depends on what the team work decide that is better to represent what they want to.
- 10. CONTACT INFORMATION: Mads Clausen Institute, SPIRE Alsion 2 DK -6400 Sønderborg +45 52742672 BEHNAM CHABOKI becha11@student.sdu.dk CLAUDIU SERBAN clser11@student.sdu.dk PATRÍCIA LIMA palim12@student.sdu.dk ROBIN OORSCHOT rovon11@student.sdu.dk