Proposta de livro-card como facilitador do aprendizado de ferramentas de Design

Abstract

The comprehensiveness of the Design field has consistently grown since the emergence of the discipline and the role of the designer as an actor of change, innovation and development is reinforced by increasingly complex projects, which require contemplating social, environmental and technological aspects - among others –. In this context, we analyze the role of knowledge systematization and of project planning in both professional practice and the academy. The present work seeks to assist the process of learning and teaching Design, regarding the use of methods and tools that support the designer in this complex design process. In order to offer an accessible material for teaching in Portuguese, we intend to formulate a text that deeply and objectively addresses some of the tools used by designers. For the elaboration of this material we adopted a design methodology and used the design tools approached throughout each step. Bibliographic searches, case studies, participant observation, similar analysis, interviews, user journey maps, physical prototypes and visual maps were performed. The texts of six tools were written, the guidelines for the writing of the others were elaborated, as well as the layout for the book and the cards. The contributions of this research comes through the reinforcement to the relevance of design research, the use of processes and methods, the facilitation of their teaching for future designers and their use by established professionals, as well as the stimulation for tool research.