Pre Workshop

I had to prepare a few templates on which the participants would design their ideas. One of the exercise were where they had to 'marry' an object from the Creation Center material lab with the eEtiquette book ie. the 101 guidelines and see what comes out of that, what materials and visual languages they can use to capture the mixture of both objects.

The template has 'idea' Photoframes with one special hand stitched idea fram where the participant must use the stitching aesthetics of the eEtiquette project.

The second template was for when the participants get down to designing for an actual app, after all the creative thinking and brainstorming through the day. We gave them images of app icons, app navigational gestures, magazines to cut out pictures from and lots of other materials to inspire them and help them build their app and think of all the possible features they can add.

When the participants ideate at the 'pattern stations'(the educational patterns we arrived at through the research), we wanted to provide them with lots of inspirational material to get them thinking. So we took out print outs of key words and all the images and screen shots of videos or objects or websites that my research had found. We found lots of real objects like toys and design concepts at the Creation center for each of the patterns. We clustered our insights and narrowed down on 6 patterns- Humour, Game, Community, Surprise, Detour, Freestyle(where the participant comes up with new patterns)