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Designing with Cards

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In this chapter, we focus on design techniques that employ a particular form of design materials, namely design cards. Design cards can support different phases of a design process, from initial ideation through ongoing concept development towards evaluation of design concepts. We present three different techniques, namely PLEX Cards, Inspiration Card Workshops and the Video Card Game, and how they are used. Once we have illustrated the three techniques, we discuss general characteristics of design cards that make them great tools in collaborative design (i.e., tangible idea containers, triggers of combinatorial creativity, and collaboration enablers).

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  1. Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6000, Kolding, Denmark

    Andrés Lucero & Jacob Buur

  2. CAVI, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Peter Dalsgaard & Kim Halskov

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Jean-Bernard Martens

  3. Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Julian Malins

  4. Expertise Centre for DigitalMedia, Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Diepenbeek, Belgium

    Karin Coninx

  5. Markopoulou-Peania Avenue, Intrasoft International, Athens, Greece

    Aggelos Liapis

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Lucero, A., Dalsgaard, P., Halskov, K., Buur, J. (2016). Designing with Cards. In: Markopoulos, P., Martens, JB., Malins, J., Coninx, K., Liapis, A. (eds) Collaboration in Creative Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29155-0_5

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