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Participatory design workshops

Participatory design workshops

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Participatory design workshops

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- Participatory design workshops are collaboration sessions between users, designers, developers and other business decision makers. You might use a variety of different specific exercises but the goal is to have users actively involved in brainstorming and providing immediate feedback on various ideas. Generally, each party participates in co-creating a variety of solutions for a predefined problem and ongoing conversations about user needs and issues, business considerations and technical limitations. The group works together to both ideate and refine solutions throughout the session. Typically, the only tools you'll need are a way to share and record ideas. If in person, that's usually just writing utensils, paper, sticky notes or a whiteboard, and a place for the whole team to gather. Participatory design sessions can also be done remotely but it takes a little bit more planning and you need to carefully consider how…

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