FLOW - Tangible Design Process
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Tangible Process 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 process” intends to provide discussions and thinking by hands. With a writeable surface and made out of magnets, all the pieces are flexible enough to be easily connected to the board, reaching different results. IT Product Design 2013 Behnam Chaboki Claudiu Serban Patrícia Lima Robin Oorschot| Robb Mitchell (supervisior)
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This is 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 process” intends to provide discussions and thinking by hands. With a writeable surface and made out of magnets, all the pieces are flexible enough to be easily connected to the board, reaching different results.
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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
process” intends to provide discussions and thinking by hands.
With a writeable surface and made out of magnets, all the pieces are flexible
enough to be easily connected to the board, reaching different results.
I T P r o d u c t D e s i g n 2 0 1 3
Behnam ChabokiClaudiu Serban Patrícia Lima Robin Oorschot| Robb Mitchell (supervisior)
toothbrush. "A design method is like a toothbrush.
Everyone likes to have one, but no one wants to use somebody else's."
John Zimmerman
*The Design Space (PhD dissertation)Christopher Robert Heape
SAMPLE OF DESIGN PROCESSES
Milestones!emesDivergence/ConvergenceOutcomes
Elements of a process (guide-lines)
key discussions
Tangibility. FlexibilityDesign Space + Process
Prescriptive x Descriptive
!e Model developed
boardcolorful 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.
How it worksAs easy as it sounds, it is possible to unfold the magnetic board (from a A3 format) up to a A1 size.
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.
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.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Mads Clausen Institute, SPIREAlsion 2
DK -6400 Sønderborg+45 52742672
BEHNAM [email protected]
CLAUDIU [email protected]
PATRÍCIA [email protected]
ROBIN [email protected]
