Session Agenda
1. Introduction & Recap
– Design Process
– Where we’re at
2. Thing Sort Activity
3. Practice Analysis
4. Next meeting: Remote, 7/29, 10-11am
Session Summary
The main purpose for this session was to introduce and get some hands-on practice with analyzing dense, messy, qualitative data. To do this, the group worked through an affinity diagramming activity with our brown bags of stuff.
Now that the group had a little fun and felt comfortable with affinity diagramming, we followed up with working through data collected through a single volunteer/staff person’s interview. In order to sort through the verbal responses from an interview, Collabo broke down the interview transcription into single statements in a spreadsheet. This breakdown or unpacking allows us to easily move, group, and identify patterns across the verbal responses.
To do’s
1. Keep scheduling and conducting your interviews and observations
2. Transcribe your interview responses into the unpacking spreadsheet
3. Take some time to reflect on your experiences as a design researcher… what’s been great? not so great?
Talk to you all soon!