Course 5: data analysis

Slides from the fifth course during which we discussed some tips and tricks about conducting interviews. as an exploratory research technique for design. This session focused mostly on data analysis and how turn data into design insights that can take many forms.

Course 4: interviews

Slides from the fourth course during which we discussed some tips and tricks about conducting interviews. as an exploratory research technique for design. This session focused mostly on data collection, we’ll get to analysis later on.

Course 3: observations and photographic investigations

Slides from the third course during which we dealt with photography as an exploratory research technique for design. This session focused mostly on data collection, we’ll get to analysis later on.

Course 2: preparing research studies

Slides from the second course during which we discussed what are research questions, how to elaborate them and how to think in terms of sampling strategies. The talk also briefly addressed the role of theoretical frameworks.

Course 1: an introduction to user research

Slides from the first course during which we discussed the notion of user research inspired by ethnography and how it can employed in interaction design.

Introductory course

This is the introductory course from the Methodology Seminar on October 12th, 2009. The lecture was about design processes in the video games field. See slides below, in french though.