Reflection Theme 5: Design Research

During theme 5 us students had the possibility to read two articles about Design research. The week consisted of two lectures where one researcher from each paper attended and spoke about design research from their point of view. I believe that the combination of these lectures would have increased my understanding towards the type of research even further.  

I felt kind of disappointed that I had no possibility to attend to the lecture by Ylva Fernaues, due the fact that we had a preparation to our final presentation in the course Future of Media.

At the same time, I particularly benefited from Haibo’s lecture where I felt that he touched some important features of what we should have in mind as “soon to be” engineers. He usually, during his lectures, presents his point of views in attention-grabbing ways. The focus of Haibo’s lecture was how to handle an idea, and also the different steps to take it towards a prototype. Such as, distinctive examples, in this case two persons who were chased by a bear. He explained in a way that one would relate to how to implement this and visualize it as a problem and the two persons would be possible perspective to observe it. The outcome would be a result of different solutions. At some point in the lecture he also presented a 5-step model, which was a procedure to handle an idea once you have got one.

By getting an insight of how a researcher handle typical problems that could occur, I feel that it provided the attending students with relative information and further understanding on how to make own assumptions. But also the ability to compare and handle ideas that probably will be something we all will face one day, probably this spring.