Difference between revisions of "Using the Deck"

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Using as a reference material

Using in a design session

Workspace

We designed a setting that would be both favourable to the practice of design and convenient for auditing the session. As part of the process, a workspace has been drawn over an A2 white sheet of paper, as shown in Figure 2. It was divided in 4 regions with the following names and purposes:

1. Deck: the starting position, i.e., the set of cards not yet considered during the session;
2. Hand: set of cards still in discussion, i.e., the cards that are no longer in Deck but did not yet reached Solution or Graveyard;
3. Solution: set of cards that participants consider to have discussed and for which tangible ideas of exploration have been specified;
4. Graveyard: set of cards that participants have discussed and opted not to explore.

Workspace v1.0 (deprecated)

Workspace v1.0 had 4 equally sized regions.

Workspace v2.0

The workspace v1.0 had 4 equally sized regions, and Graveyard is located after Solution, by no special reason. By observing the way the regions were populated during this exercise, we understood the need to some optimizations and, as such, we have redesigned the layout of the workspace, aiming at: assigning more relative space to the regions where more cards are usually simultaneously considered (namely the Hand); avoiding the possible idea of sequentiality regarding Solution and Graveyard; accommodating a description in each region.

In workspace v2.0 the layout of the regions was optimized.

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  In workspace v2.0 the layout of the regions was optimized.

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  Layout of the regions with their descriptions.

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  Typical flow of cards across regions.

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  Flow of cards including possible reconsiderations.