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Participatory design 2.0 – user involvement through social media

October 15, 2010 on 5:05 am | By Asbjørn | In All categories | 3 Comments

At Yggdrasil 2010, the main Norwegian conference on usability and user documentation, I held a presentation called Participatory design 2.0. This title  spurred the interest of at least one non-Norwegian  speaking  Slideshare reader, and in consequence I will give a brief summary here.

The history of Participatory design (PD) may be interpreted as one of rise (80′es and early 90′es) and decline (mid 90′es ->). The source of PD is the Scandinavian tradition, where the development and implementation of interactive systems at the workplace was seen as a political activity requiring the democratic involvement of the  workers. As Pelle Ehn states it in a chapter in the classic  Participatory design: “Every human should have the right to participate equally in decisions concerning his or her life”. Continue reading Participatory design 2.0 – user involvement through social media…