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Project Proposal
Provotyping in the wild
| Student name | Bas Botermans (B.A.M.Botermans[at]student.tudelft.nl) |
| Chair of supervisory team | Walter Aprile (W.A.Aprile[at]tudelft.nl) |
| Mentor of supervisory team | Froukje Sleeswijk-Visser (F.SleeswijkVisser[at]tudelft.nl) |
| Company name | Mads Clausen Institute (SPIRE) – University of Southern Denmark |
| Country | Denmark |
| Company mentor | Jared Donovan (jared[at]mci.sdu.dk) |
| Start date | Februari 2010 |
| End date | July 2010 |
Introduction
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a better horse”
This quotation by Henry Ford does not state that we should not include end-users in the design process, but it shows that people are bound to think within their frame of reference. How can designers understand what users want, need and dream of if those customers don’t know what they can have? That is what this project in short will be about: developing a method to, together with people, broaden the design scope to inform and inspire the design process.