Today's design challenges are more geared towards the creation of social
systems. While systems design is not new the social systems design
challenges of today ask for novel and designerly approaches. We set up a
workshop to investigate these approaches employing three techniques as
input: co-reflection, lo-fi prototyping and value-flow modeling. Reflecting on
the six social system concepts we present insights that can act as a first
framework to design for social systems: (1) Finding a balance between
taking a first or third person perspective; (2) A tension-field between
designing for and experimenting within the chosen contexts exists; (3)
Design constraints were either perceived as inspiring or limiting.
DesignED Asia 2012 Conference
