Abstract
Design theory often stands apart from design practice. Tools offer one means to bridge this divide. Yet how to move from abstract concepts of design theory and principles to specific toolkits that can structure and enable action remains elusive. This pictorial presents a way forward, illustrating the movement from theory to toolkit and concrete action for multi-lifespan design. Our key contributions are three-fold: First, we offer an expansion to an existing design toolkit, the Multi-lifespan Envisioning Cards. We demonstrate the toolkit's use through case studies. Second, we provide insights on the process of constructing a theoretically-informed design toolkit. We pay special attention to the interplay between text, visuals, and embodied actions. Third, we provide a proof-of-concept for how to extend an existing toolkit to account for new theories and perspectives. We reflect on the timeless qualities of the Envisioning Cards and discuss heuristics for designing a robust yet flexible toolkit.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference |
| Subtitle of host publication | Digital Wellbeing |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 557-570 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450393584 |
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| Publication status | Published - 13 Jun 2022 |
| Event | 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, DIS 2022 - Virtual, Online, Australia Duration: 13 Jun 2022 → 17 Jun 2022 |
Conference
| Conference | 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, DIS 2022 |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 13/06/22 → 17/06/22 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
We thank Batya Friedman, Nell Carden Grey, and Mark Ring for the beautiful photographs; we thank Stephanie Ballard, Batya Friedman, David G. Hendry, Nick Logler, Ron Wakkary, and Katya Yemifova for the Sleeve value scenario; and the graduate students in INSC 543 Value Sensitive Design course in Winter 2022, Information School, UW-Seattle for their participation in the multi-lifespan design studio. We also thank all the particpants in the Long(er)-Term Design Thinking workshop in May 2018, who provided thoughtful comments on the early prototypes of the Multi-lifespan Envisioning Cards. Finally, we wish to thank the authors of the original Envisioning Cards: Batya Friedman, Shaun Kane, John Lin, and Lisa Nathan. The work reported here was funded in part by NSF Grant IIS-1302709.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| National Science Foundation | IIS-1302709 |
Keywords
- Card-based design tool
- design theory
- design toolkit
- envisioning
- Envisioning Cards
- longer-term design
- multi-lifespan design
- time
- value sensitive design