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Open, Collaborative Design Research Stuart Church & Dave Ellender Bristol Usability Group 06 May 2009
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Open, Collaborative Design Research
Stuart Church & Dave EllenderBristol Usability Group 06 May 2009
Dave Ellender
Exploratree
Stuart Church
• User research & evaluation
• Prototyping
• UX Strategy
• Training
Academics v practitioners
Academic Practitioners
Speed of reporting Slow (years!) Fast (weeks/months)
Research quality Mostly high Very variable
Research subject Greater focus on conceptual /
blue skiesPractical design issues
Results reported openly Yes, but may be limited access Not usually
Collaboration Little Little
The Opportunity
Academic Practitioners Opportunity
Speed of reporting Slow (years!) Fast (weeks/months) Fast
Research quality Mostly high Very variable (hopefully) High
Research subject Greater focus on
conceptual / blue skiesPractical design issues
Bias towards practical design issues
Results reported openly
Yes, but may be limited access
Not usually Yes
Collaboration Little Little Lots
Crowdsourcing (sort of)
Example: Drupal 7 UX Project
Research & Collaboration
Research Process Collaborative activities
Make observations and formulate hypotheses Contribute and vote on proposed ideas
Plan research approach Feedback / comment on approach
Collect data Distributed data collection and results submission
Analyse data Feedback / comment on data interpretation and statistical methods
Write up Collaborative online document
(How) Can we make this work?
opendesignresearch.org
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Issues?• Why would people (you?) get involved?
• What sorts of design research questions would be best suited to this approach?
• Intellectual property (Creative commons? GPL - like?)
• Mis-use of voting system
• Maintaining quality of research
• Getting client buy-in (if piggy-backing on commercial projects)
• Funding?
Next steps
• Register for an account at opendesignresearch.org
• Contribute research questions and comment at opendesign.uservoice.com
• Informal feedback to Dave ([email protected]) or Stu ([email protected])
