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BLACK MIRROR: A NOVEL APPLICATION OF SPECULATIVE DESIGN TO FACILITATE CONTEXT-AWARE DESIGN THINKING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Kyung seo Jung ,
Neharika Makam ,
Summer Dahyang Jung ,
Seoyoung Kim  and
Sohyeong Kim
Kyung seo Jung*
Affiliation:
Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus, Stanford University;
Neharika Makam
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego;
Summer Dahyang Jung
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Seoyoung Kim
Affiliation:
Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus, Stanford University;
Sohyeong Kim
Affiliation:
Stanford University
*
Jung, Kyung seo, Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus, Stanford University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea), kjungk@stanford.edu

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As design thinking became popularized, practitioners in the field pointed out that design thinking rarely takes stakeholders and contexts into account as a result of focusing solely on end-users. We believe such a limitation can be complemented with speculative design, which critiques the future that an idea depicts and interrogates relationships with social, cultural, economical, and political systems. This paper, through pilot interviews with 10 participants and a thematic analysis on interviews with 12 participants, explores possible interaction between design thinking and speculative and critical depiction of the future. Speculative and critical inquiries allowed the participants to consider various social contexts and stakeholders, and further helped them shape and brainstorm the ideas’ potential values and challenges faced during adoption. The overall critical speculation influenced various steps of the design thinking process. The paper contributes to the literature by reporting a novel application of speculative design to the conventional design thinking process. In the future, we hope to further explore other elements of speculative design and their impact on design outcomes.

Keywords

Design methodologyDesign practiceDesign process
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 787 - 796
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