MENTAL MODEL · M8155

Participatory Design

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

Participatory design includes end users and other stakeholders in the design or evaluation process as equal participants, rather than treating them as passive sources to be interviewed or audiences to be satisfied. The rationale is that users hold knowledge of their own constraints and needs that no designer can extract from outside, and that participation builds the buy-in that later adoption depends on.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Reduce cognitive load

- Find the real stakeholders: include those who will live with the result. - Build a shared space: give participants a way to make and test together. - Treat input as decision: hand over real authority, not just a hearing.

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Anchor fast decisions

Knowledge of needs sits with the people whose constraints generate them, and extracting that knowledge by interview loses the part that is tacit. Co-designing puts the knowledge in the room where the decisions are made, and the participation itself creates the stake that smooths later implementation.

MINIMUM ACTION

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Practice this model in one real situation:

Identify the stakeholders who will actually live with the result. 2. Set up a shared space with materials and prototypes to work in. 3. Iterate together through workshops rather than presenting for approval. 4. Let participant input change the decision and not merely decorate it.

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