The money earning exercise made us understand that how to get most by investing the least. It made us think more about how can we bringa product so differently so that it is bought.
2. What other similar exercises can be created?
Working under someone or working with them to try and understand their working better.
3. What kind of research tool is role play?
Role play lets us keep ourselves in other’s shoes. You can understand the actual situation, working, relation with the tools etc. of a worker.
4. What are its advantages over plain interviews.
Interviews only give you quantitative data. Through role play you get a qualitative research and can understand many simple things and problem one can miss out in an interview.
5. What is ergonomics?
It is the relation of person with its working tool. It includes the way the tools are used, kept, how much strength one uses while working, what are the body actions happening while working etc.
6. How is it a research tool?
It lets you know how a person manipulates its tool’s setting according to its comfort. What all alterations can be done for a better working.
7. What kind of user understanding does ergonomics provide?
It lets you know better about the area of work, how and what exact setting can be done for the most comfort and efficient work.
8. What is a scenario or persona, what are the advantages of creating them?
A scenario is when you write a screenplay around a person, using its maximum information from real life. While creating different scenarios you actually think of the different situation that person can get in to, different problems one can face, and what solution he might take while in that problem. All the action set is from the point of view of the person we are writing about. The plot is written using the actual possible people around him. Or if someone imaginary is created, it is created with extreme detail.
9. What are the advantages of a matrix as a research tool?
It lets you know about all the criteria u think while buying or creating a product.
10. How can it also work as a design tool?
It lets you know about all the criteria u think while buying or creating a product. Which further helps you design a better product, with everything you need.
11. Give two examples of second level understandings from Marasandra village based on your own reflective judgement.
The setting of the village is in a specific manner. At one side there are small shacks. Then small pakka houses. And the other side there are bigger concrete houses. The potters live in one area and the others working in shops and factories in the other.
12. Give two examples of design interventions that you can do based on this 2 weeks of research.
1) After an in depth research we can come up with a book giving information or can work on a movie which brings out important information about the subject.
2) after a detailed research we can try and design a better setting or product for those people.
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