Core Principles for Your Toolkit

• Overall, make your tool accessible
  • Use clear, jargon-free language
  • Include visual aids whenever possible
  • Consider different learning styles (visual, textual, interactive)
  • Provide examples from your projects.
    • Talk about the techniques that worked during an interview
    • Provide guidance on how someone should do desk research about your space
• Including Research Methods
  • Interview guides and templates: after all your interviews, what do you want to keep and what do you want to change?
  • Observation frameworks: what do you suggest people do if they are observing your space? what should they specifically focus on?
  • Ethics considerations: What should others be mindful about?
  • Recruiting strategies: How should people think about and recruit people for research? Add from your challenges and learned experience.
• Including Best Practices
  • Lessons learned from failures
  • Stakeholder engagement strategies
  • Checklists for interviews, workshops, or other tools you used

Visual Learning Documentation

• Include photographs, drawings, or writings from your field research (with permission)
• Add sketches of your observation setup (you can reuse the one created for this class)
• Include maps or layouts of research spaces