Print Email Facebook Twitter Developing Usage Guidelines for a Card-Based Design Tool Title Developing Usage Guidelines for a Card-Based Design Tool: A Case of the Positive Emotional Granularity Cards Author Yoon, J Desmet, P.M.A. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics) Pohlmeyer, A.E. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics) Date 2016 Abstract Background Card-based design tools have gained popularity as a means to communicateresearch insights and to make them usable in a design process. There are various examples of cardtools and guidelines for developing a card set itself, yet there has been little research into how theusage of card tools can be systematically formulated. Although the existing literature on card toolsoften presents certain usages, it rarely explicates how the usage was structured, and provides fewreferences to the underlying decisions.Methods Through a case study of the positive emotional granularity cards, this paper presentsa bottom-up approach in which designers’ needs and their own techniques to use the cards arereflected in formulating new card usage guidelines. Three design workshops were conducted, eachof which explored how designers made use of the cards in the three design activities respectively: (1)assimilating nuances of positive emotions; (2) specifying emotional intentions; and (3) generatingproduct ideas. In a creative session with design researchers, the workshop findings were translatedinto usage guidelines.Results There were individual differences in designers’ ability to make use of the PEG cards.At one end of the spectrum was the designer who immediately started to play and explore the cards,creating his or her own usage rules. At the other end of the spectrum was the designer who neededinstructions to get started. Most designers explored usage, but at the same time they felt insecureabout getting value without having some guidance. The workshops allowed us to spot the benefitsand drawbacks of the techniques the designers used, and to identify their needs in using the PEGcards. The creative session resulted in the PEG card guidelines that assist and inspire designers inthe three design activities.Conclusions Provisional usage guidelines can considerably contribute to a card tool’s usefulness,even if the card usage is envisioned to be open-ended and versatile. The bottom-up approach provedvaluable to generate new insights into how a card set can best be used and how designers can beguided when using the card set. Subject Design ToolCard-based ToolEmotional DesignEmotional Granularity To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a573ecc0-87a8-4c0c-8703-9eede89712f9 DOI https://doi.org/10.15187/adr.2016.11.29.4.5 ISSN 2288-2987 Source Archives of Design Research, 29 (4), 5-19 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 J Yoon, P.M.A. Desmet, A.E. Pohlmeyer Files PDF Yoon_2016_usage_guideline ... _tool_.pdf 2.53 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a573ecc0-87a8-4c0c-8703-9eede89712f9/datastream/OBJ/view