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Reduce your footprint, testing the release early, release often mantra

Published: 29 November 2010 Publication History

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Our recent Reduce your Footprint project for three Sydney councils allowed us an opportunity to incorporate a number of different methods from our Considered Design toolkit into the one project. We employed mobile diaries, co-design workshops and an iterative approach to the design and development of the project's web site resulting in a design that has benefited from a significant amount of user design, testing and feedback. We will share the lessons learnt from this unusual project.

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    PDC '10: Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
    November 2010
    314 pages
    ISBN:9781450301312
    DOI:10.1145/1900441
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    • DE: Digital Eskimo
    • UTS-HCTDRS: The UTS Human Centred Technology Design Research Strength
    • University of Technology Sydney
    • Roskilde University
    • SIGCHI-Australia: ACM SIGCHI Australia
    • Zumio: Zumio

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    Published: 29 November 2010

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    1. co-design
    2. iterative design
    3. participation
    4. sustainability

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    • UTS-HCTDRS
    • SIGCHI-Australia
    • Zumio
    PDC '10: The 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
    November 29 - December 3, 2010
    Sydney, Australia

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