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Homework: Collect Data for Stakeholder Analysis

Background

While developing a design concept, it is important to collect information: about your users, the context, competitors, or reference products. With more information, a designer can better understand a design situation and make better decisions about the product.

Learning Objectives

In this home assignment, you’ll get some practice and learn about hints on how to look for information about the context for your envisioned system.

Instructions

  1. Decide what problem/idea / envisioned system you want to focus on
  2. Think about what you want to know before designing a solution
    • Some examples:
      • What is my main problem / idea / envisioned system?
      • Who are my stakeholders? How can I find them?
      • Is there a precedent? How did it go?
      • What are possible changes I expect to observe?
  3. Use search engine to find information:
  4. How to find useful sources:
    • Put yourself in others’ shoes. How would you name your article as an author presenting your solution? How would name an article with the analysis of consequences?
    • Put yourself in others’ shoes. How would you describe your situation if you’d be unhappy with the solution? For different stakeholders, it’ll be different situations and different words. 
    • You cannot anticipate covering 100% of cases but try to think about as many different cases as possible. You’re looking for variety, not an estimate in numbers.

Product

A collection of materials with information relevant to your project. Especially, focus on finding stakeholders and potential effects your envisioned system will have on them.

Follow-up

You’ll use these materials in stakeholder analysis workshop during week 4.