Fluctuating Design Process: Education for projection with a social innovation impact
Keywords:
Social inclusion, social innovation, design process, design methodology, visual impairmentAbstract
The innovation presented is the Fluctuating Design Process, an educational design methodology, used to develop social design products. This process
allows the student-designer undertake a six-stage design process and modify its characteristics to be holistic, customizable, experimental and/or rational in developing a design process for adequate design solutions resulting in a project activity (end result) with a high value on design output. The process is divided int six stages: Research, Analysis, Ideation, Materialization, Validation and Feedback, the latter instituted throughout the process. A venture practice of the Fluctuating design Process in academia was performed with five teams composed of design students of the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon. The design project objective was to develop social innovation through product development for visual impaired users (blindness and visual weakness) that use the options in public transportation in Monterrey, Mexico.
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