This week we did not have a seminar but instead to different lectures on design research. Both lectures where intersting but quite different from each other!
The thing that stood out to me most was the importance of thinking about the actual problem you want to solve with your research. Finding a problem is not hard, but finding the right problem to solve is the tricky part. Actually finding the problem is probably a step we should spend more time on, beacuse if we solve the "wrong" problem, the resarch could become useless or at least overly complicated (I liked Haibo's example with the student and the bear, although a little cruel).
I also learned about the improtance of math when evaluating an idea. Even though it can seem hard at first to reduce something to just numbers, it can be possible and makes it much more easy to evaluate and compare it to your other ideas (especially when you have a lot of them).
The biggest thing I will remember from this theme is to consider both your problem and your ideas more methodologically and carefully, before you jump into trying to solve it!
Hey!
SvaraRaderaI agree with you that the lectures were quite different from each other. Something I learned, as you also said, is that it is important to find the right problem when it comes to design research. It would be inconvenient if you in the middle of a research arrives to a dead end because you can not move forward due to your design-research problem. So I guess that is why it is important to find the right kind of problem, but of course one will encounter obstacles along the way. Haibo emphasized a lot on that mathematics has an important role when designing and solving a problem. What I also liked with Haibo's lecture is that he showed the example about the teacher/student and bear in the beginning, which was a good introduction to the whole lecture! It is great that you will remember the importance of problem solving and constructing ideas because I think this is something you have to have in mind when constructing e.g. your master thesis :) So that's great!
/Hannah