Tuesday, 4 December 2012

OUGD405 - Collecting Research

Ways to research
  • Visit exhibitions: Identify trends, competition & influence
  • Setting up focus groups
  • Questionnaires to collect facts, figures and opinions
  • Interviewing professionals/specialists
  • Experimenting with media or production
  • Reading design publications
  • Observation of life
  • Photographing peoples behaviour/ architecture/ documentation
  • Watching a film
  • Collecting current or historical examples
  • Market research in context
Sources
  • Quotes
  • Opinions
  • Statements
  • Facts
  • Statistics
  • Feedback
  • Analysis
  • Photographs/images/visual material
  • Data
  • Knowledge
  • Examples
  • Samples
  • Documents
What can get in the way of research
  • Expenses
  • Regulations
  • Payments for journals
  • Not knowing if sources are reliable
  • Biased answers/people not bothering to fill in questionnaires
  • Can't get in contact with professionals
  • Time constraints
  • Cooperation with people
  • Fake websites - not knowing if the information is reliable
Ways we can improve our research for our group project (How to get people to read more)
  • Broader questionnaires
  • Collect more statistics from different sources
  • Ask target audiences
  • Try different medias
  • Visit Waterstones/Library - see how children areas are decorated etc
  • Safety in spacial awareness
  • Find out the most popular books/themes
  • Look at existing products aimed at children
  • Look at children's illustrations

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