A Social Model of Design
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The document proposes a 'social model' of product design that examines how designers can collaborate with client systems. A social model would have designers take a holistic, participatory approach by: 1) Listening to understand client needs within their environments; 2) Collaborating with clients to prioritize needs and set goals and objectives; 3) Guiding interventions to meet agreed upon goals through observation and participatory design. The document suggests research is needed on how designers can contribute to social issues and evaluate socially responsible products.
A Social Model of Design
- 1. A Social Model Of Design - Margolin V. & Margolin S.
- 6. the aim of this work is to propose a social model of product design practice and to suggest a research agenda that would examine and develop it.
- 8. what does a social worker do? http://youtu.be/-r7D3NbT6IU
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- 15. social worker listens to the client system and gets a sense of the current problem.
- 16. the social worker looks holistically at the client systems interaction within the various environmental domains and makes a list of different needs.
- 17. the social worker collaborates with the client system to prioritize needs, trying to determine what is most pressing and together they make a list of goals and objectives and decide who will do what by when.
- 18. the intervention is guided by goals and objectives that have been agreed upon.
- 21. how a product designer could collaborate within client system? what contributions could s/he make?
- 22. Client System x Participatory Design assigning authority to the designer to what extent?
- 25. survey research and interviews with human service professionals, designers can be conducted to gather information on perceptions and attitudes, and to solicit suggestions for change.
- 26. content analysis of archival data such as journals, periodicals, and newspapers can be used to gain insight into how the media report on issues of social design.
- 27. designers can enter social settings, either as part of a multidisciplinary team or alone, to observe and document social needs that can be satisfied with design interventions.
- 28. research that centers on the development and evaluation of socially responsible products is also important.
- 29. research that centers on the development and evaluation of socially responsible products is also important. because social interventions of designers have been hit-or-miss.