Week 8: design evaluation plan and final outcome ideation.

Looking at how helpful was for me to talk to visually impaired users and co-design with them, I decided to do it again but this time with the aim of evaluating the outcome obtained from the co-design sessions. The ideas presented in the previous week blog were theirs, but I ran those sessions separately because it was easier to fit into participants’ schedule. 

What I wanted to next was to present the ideas that I had collected from them separately to them again and see how they feel not only about their ideas but also the ones from other participants. My aim with this was, firstly, to analyse if I had understood their answers and proposals correctly, and, secondly, to validate the different ideas. I also expected that by leaving the door open to new possible answers, more design opportunities could arise. If we see design as an iterative process, this step in my project would constitute an attempt to improve the designs that stemmed from the first sessions. For this, I prepared a session with two parts, in the first one they’ll tell me how much do they agree with the outcome obtained from the first sessions. In the second part, we will draw a mind map together in which they’ll tell me their concerns and opportunities with the AV experience. 

On another hand, and as my FMP final outcome, I decided that by placing my designer role as a facilitator for users’ ideas, the best way I could honour this project was to properly illustrate the ideas that came out during the different sessions of talking with visually impaired people. Furthermore, I wanted to show other designers my approach to justice & speculative design and explain the lessons that I learned from working on this, hoping that they could use it as inspirations for their work. 

Given the circumstances, I decided to build a landing page so designers can have easier access to it. The page would have the following structure: 

• Show all the main ideas that stemmed from my co-design sessions in a video.

• The tools employed and the theoretical framework of my project.

• Further outcome from the co-design sessions and details of this. 

I started by prototyping the structure of the website: 

Then I wrote a story line of the ideas that would be shown in the video: 

And decided the general aesthetics of the motion graphics video: