Designer Roles
Researchers who study designers at work often describe
strategies experts use when solving design
challenges, including: defining the challenge in your
own words, generating ideas, analyzing the situation,
deciding what to do, sketching, designing experiments
to test key variables, making analysis and reasoning from
cases. Another way to think of design strategies is to
think of roles people enact when designing.
Movie 1 gives you an opportunity to view colored highlight
overlays to indicate students acting in the following
rules:
Manager -- facilitates or directs the group
Reporter -- provides facts and collects data
Designer -- generates ideas or does sketches
Scientist -- makes predictions and conducts tests
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Try looking for other designer roles and strategies in
this and other DITC movies. Notice that roles change very
rapidly and that the same person can change roles, even
in mid-sentence. You may want to watch portions of MOVIE
1 more than once.
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