Welcome!

This is a practical class in Contextual Design. We will read the book “Contextual Design, 2nd ed.” by Karen Holtzblatt and Hugh Beyer together and run through a Lightning Fast+ Rapid Contextual Design Process.

There are no lectures, you need to actually read the book, one to two chapters each week, and work through a contextual design process together with your team.

Class time will be used for whole-class activities, Presentations, Q&A and Learnteam-Coaching.

The workload per week is about 9 to 10,5 hrs (in accordance with the 5 ECTS you earn).

Have a look at the schedule to see how this breaks down. If needed, further information will appear on the Reports page.

Grading

There are three reports to hand in via moodle, and a final project presentation including slides. Each of this counts 1/5 towards the grade:

• Report I: write-up Contextual Inquiry
• Report II: Affinity Diagram and Wall Walk
• Report III: write-up Visioning and Product Concepts
• Report IV: Paper Prototypes & their Evalutation and Final Project Report
• Presentation (Actual Presentation & Slides) (maybe a video this term)