Cultural probes

For our probes, we asked the question: how are people’s everyday eating habits compared to their desired eating habits and what does that tell us about the “routine” and the “ideal”. We wanted to…

This semester, our main goal was build on the foundations that we developed in the Fall Semester and to understand the context of the problem a bit further on a personal level of our stake holders. C...

I am an interaction / product designer, I am doing my master in Umea Institute of Design right now. I come from Inner Mongolia,China, and now I am living in Umea, Sweden

— Isabel Hillenbrand, Senior Strategic Designer at think moto, shares her insights on using cultural probes in combination with in-depth interviews for exploratory research. — When we developed ideas…

Reflection From the result of the cultural probes, we learn a number of information from our clients to inspire our design ideas. For example, from the sharing tools probe and the interview questi…

case study Cultural probes

Cultural Probes work by revealing fragmentary insights into peoples’ lives, giving access to everyday realities while preserving a sense of mystery. Probes are collections of evocative tasks given to volunteers to elicit inspiring responses.

Unseen Cultures Probe Kit is an activity kit given to participants to gain insight into their understanding of and opinions surrounding environmental...

In the context of a university Design Research and Methods class we learned co-creation and several research methodologies. The class revolved around environmental health and measuring the impacts of…

For the sake of knowledge sharing (e.g. on Flickr) , and for my own future reference, this post presents the individual acitivities in my cultural probe package, and how they aim to elicit thoughts…