Using the Deck

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)

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  Workspace v1.0 had 4 equally sized regions.

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  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.