sERvicE DesiGN ToolS

After browsing the examples of design research tools i came across Group Sketching. This is the process of doing simple drawings to encourage everyone to take part and enhance the flow of ideas. It sounds simple but i think it would have been beneficial when we started our, trend forecasting project. No one really understood what trend forecasting was and there was confusion as to what we were being asked to do. If we had all gotten together and used this technique everyone would have gone off with a clearer aim in their mind i feel. Also the idea of Mood Boards seems like it would have helped us along our way. In our sketchbooks we are encouraged to create colour pages not unlike mood boards but if everyone was told to make an A2 mood board to completely capture their topic, shapes, colours and over all mood this might have stopped people going on tangents as they could always refer back to it. I think this is some thing i am definitely going to try and do at the start of my next project.