Design with the user

Massimo Menichinelli

2014-2015

Project

Source: on GitHub

Course structure

1. 13/11: Course introduction. Slides
2. 13/11: User-centered Design, User-experience design, Co-Design: methodologies and tools / Lead users, Open Innovation and Open Source. Slides
3. 20/11: Open Design+Metadesign: concept and development / Intellectual property and design: laws and the design process. +Install Software Bring your computer! Slides
4. 27/11: Digital Tools for Open projects: version control systems. Slides
5. 4/12: Practice: developing an Open project Project @GitHub
6. Christmas Holiday: Online work Project @GitHub
7. 15/01: Practice: developing an Open project Project @GitHub
8. 23/01: Practice: developing the physical Open project. Fabbing @ FabLab

How we will work together #01

1. Two groups of 4 students: A and B
2. Form the groups
3. Send one e-mail per group to info@openp2pdesign.org with, for each member of the group:
   1. Name - Surname
   2. GitHub username (not the password!)
   3. e-mail address

How we will work together #03

1. Choose a project:
   1. It can be from another course or already done
   2. ... but you need to be sure about your rights on an existing project
   3. The importance is on testing the process of working together in a distributed way, not on the complexity of the project
   4. Test/design hardware, software, design, ...
2. Simple/small enough for fabbing it on the last day

How we will work together #04

1. Use the group repository for files
2. Use the group repository issues for discussion
3. Add the licenses (for hardware, software, design, ...) as files + README.md

How we will work together #05

Milestones (group A - group B)

1. 15/12 0.1 Discuss ideas and organize your work
2. 13/01 0.2 One or more projects already developed
3. 22/01 0.3 Project(s) ready for digital fabrication

How we will work together #06

Suggestions...

1. Each student could have a personal branch, do their work there, and then merge to master after discussing with the other students
2. ... or you could do everything in master, but you need anyway (if not more) to coordinate and discuss what to do
3. If you coordinate and discuss well over which files should be edited, you should not have any conflict with merge. If you find any conflict, I can help you with that.

Where we will work together: Organization

Source: https://github.com/organizations/OpenDesign-SUPSI

Where we will work together: Group A

Source: https://github.com/OpenDesign-SUPSI/GroupA-1415

Where we will work together: Group B

Source: https://github.com/OpenDesign-SUPSI/GroupB-1415

Contacts

Massimo Menichinelli / info@openp2pdesign.org / @openp2pdesign