Participatory design is a design approach that attempts to actively involve all the stakeholders in the design process. A common method for involving external participants is organizing participatory design sessions. Participatory design sessions can be combined with other interaction design methods such as scenario-based design. Discussing the scenarios in a participatory design session can help to get a better understanding of users’ current experience and expectations towards the designed system.
Typical participatory design session with scenarios involves 2…3 participants and a design researcher. A two hour session is enough for discussing 3…4 scenarios. For detailed guidelines on organizing a participatory design session about the scenarios see the following guidelines:
- LeMill project
- iTEC project
- DigiMina project (in Estonian)
At the end of the participatory design session it is important to write summary with key points from the design session. See the following examples from projects:
- LeMill project
- iTEC project
- DigiMina project (in Estonian)
