Reflection 5: Design research

This week theme was about design research with two different texts. We also had two lectures with the authors of the texts, Haibo Li and Ylva Fernaeus. I couldn’t attend to the lectures, due to sickness, which was unfortunately. But I read what the others have been writing about the lectures to have a better understanding of the topic, I also got information from some course mates.

The lecture with Haibo Li seemed to be a lecture you don’t want to miss. As I understood, it was mainly about how to come up with an idea and develop it and make it real in the best possible way. By conducting a good research paper the research gets a chance to make money of the idea and even get a little bit fame. This sounds really interesting and is a different approach to design research from what I expected. I though the lectures would be more about the texts we have been reading.

I learned a little bit more about the design research concept but did not feel that I got the deeper understanding as I did with the other themes, maybe because I couldn’t attend to the lectures. But the theme design research, made me realize the importance of defining a problem. When a problem is correctly defined, the solution will be easier to see.