Session: Day 2: Interactions thread: Can good design be ‘co-created’?
Interactions thread: Can good design be ‘co-created’?
Chair: Nico Macdonald
Joe Heapy, Austin Williams + Lynne Maher
Inspired by Wikipedia and Linux, a new area of socially commited designers argue that products, and particulaly services, are best designed in collaboration with users and other stakeholders.
Is the open-source software model applicable to other areas of design? Is the primary aim to co-create high quality services, to shape behaviour, or encourage ‘social engagement’? If everyone can design, what is the the role of professional designers?
On my site, I have published the notes based on the report back I gave to the conference. They may be updated once the transcript has been published.
Posted by: Nico Macdonald | 02 November 2007 at 02:03 PM