The Redesign Studio: An Intensive Evidence-Based Approach for Ideating Product and UX/UI Improvements

Date

2022-09-08

Author

Pedgley, Owaın Francıs
Şener Pedgley, Bahar

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

152
views

0
downloads

This paper describes a six-week design studio that set out to make ‘redesign’ an educationally rewarding activity, whilst developing students’ skills in evidence-based designing. Final year industrial design undergraduates chose a personally owned household electrical or electronic product that they considered in need of improving or updating. The redesign studio guided students through five consecutive stages of briefings, activities, and critiques: (i) product anatomy analysis and part labelling, (ii) market analysis and market segmentation charts, (iii) hands-on peer contributed user experience (UX) evaluation, (iv) strategies for product improvement, and (v) design proposals. The educational aims of each stage are presented, with particular attention to the UX programme evaluation stage, where students were supplied with a special UX evaluation worksheet to accelerate their comprehension of UX terms and assist the collection and analysis of product evaluations. The results of a survey to gather students’ views on the strengths and weaknesses of the redesign studio are also presented. Students gave overwhelmingly positive feedback, praising the closeness of the studio to ‘real world’ design practice. Their greatest challenge was time management: having to deal with the new experience of a high-intensity studio where they could not afford to ideate for excessively long periods or to procrastinate at any stage. The redesign studio is suggested to be a fruitful model for design instructors to adopt and modify in their own institutions for market-focused design briefs where rationalized incremental improvements are sought, rather than radical innovations.

Subject Keywords

Product design, industrial design, redesign, evidence-based design, UX/UI

URI

https://www.designsociety.org/publication/45886/THE+REDESIGN+STUDIO%3A+AN+INTENSIVE+EVIDENCE-BASED+APPROACH+FOR+IDEATING+PRODUCT+AND+UX%2FUI+IMPROVEMENTS
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102299

DOI

https://doi.org/10.35199/epde.2022.105

Conference Name

EPDE: INT. CONF. ON ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION

Collections

Department of Industrial Design, Conference / Seminar

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Integrating 3D physical and digital modeling into 3D form creation in industrial design education Öztürk Şengül, Mehtap; Hasdoğan, Gülay Fatma; Department of Industrial Design (2016) Digital design media have entered in the design field in the course of the last couple of decades and have rapidly changed the way of practicing in design related professions. As part of this change, digital modeling has taken its place among the basic skills that an industrial designer is expected to have. As a cognitive activity, modeling plays very significant roles in the form creation related skill acquisition processes in design education. Therefore an urgent need for new approaches for the integratio...
The Performance-Based Interlinked Model (PBIM) In Architectural Design: Exchanging Environmental, Structural And Spatial Parameters In The Early Design Stage Yazıcı, Sevil (Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, 2021-6-30) The paper aims to present a model that generates a framework for incorporating different types of performance issues into the conceptual design to improve the decision-making process of students by extracting only the critical parameters and demonstrate its applicability in the context of architectural education. The proposed Performance-based Interlinked Model (PBIM) seeks to address the question of whether design and performance parameters can be evaluated together in the early design stage, where concept...
Evaluation of basic design education at METU department of industrial design Bayırlı, Ümit; Özgen Koçyıldırım, Dalsu; Department of Industrial Design (2015) Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year to initiate students to the theory, practice and communication of design and to lay a basis on which more advanced and specialized knowledge will be gathered throughout the rest of their design education and careers. However, the course's results, influence in design education and methods of conduct receives many criticisms from students, educators, designers and researchers. Even though the course plays a foundi...
The position of three-dimensional modeling and visualization techniques in industrial design education COŞKUN, MERVE; Akiner, Dilem (2012-05-04) The purpose of this research is to determine the position of three-dimensional modeling and digital visualization within the scope of concept and product development process in the undergraduate education in Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture Department of Industrial Design, designate the problems that the students encounter during the integration of these methods to the design process, and finally question how these methods can be incorporated into design education in order to influen...
Teaching basic design online during the Covid-19 pandemic: An evaluation of the conventional and innovative pedagogies Cihanger Medeıros Rıbeıro, Duygu (2022-12-01) This article presents multiple pedagogical methods employed for urban planning students’ first-year basic design studio course during the rapid shift to an online environment in response to Covid-19. The aim is to critically discuss the conventional and innovative tools and techniques in design teaching during the online education system in the 2020–2021 academic year at Middle East Technical University City and Regional Planning Department. To do this, the basic design and planning studio course preparatio...

Citation Formats

O. F. Pedgley and B. Şener Pedgley, “The Redesign Studio: An Intensive Evidence-Based Approach for Ideating Product and UX/UI Improvements,” presented at the EPDE: INT. CONF. ON ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION, London, İngiltere, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/45886/THE+REDESIGN+STUDIO%3A+AN+INTENSIVE+EVIDENCE-BASED+APPROACH+FOR+IDEATING+PRODUCT+AND+UX%2FUI+IMPROVEMENTS.