Live Piloting and Prototyping

Francesca Rizzo and Daria Cantù
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Francesca Rizzo: Politecnico of Milano, Design Department, Via Durando 38/a 20158 Milano, Italy
Daria Cantù: Politecnico of Milano, Design Department, Via Durando 38/a 20158 Milano, Italy

Challenges, 2013, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: This paper presents current trends in service design research concerning large scale projects aimed at generating changes at a local scale. The strategy adopted to achieve this, is to co-design solutions including future users in the development process, prototyping and testing system of products and services before their actual implementation. On the basis of experience achieved in the European Project Life 2.0, this paper discusses which methods and competencies are applied in the development of these projects, eliciting the lessons learnt especially from the piloting phase in which the participatory design (PD) approach plays a major role. In the first part, the topic is introduced jointly with the theoretical background where the user center design and participatory design methods are presented; then the Life 2.0 project development is described; finally the experience is discussed from a service design perspective, eliciting guidelines for piloting and prototyping services in a real context of use. The paper concludes reflecting on the designers’ role and competencies needed in this process.

Keywords: service design; participatory design; piloting; prototyping; stakeholders’ network; infrastructuring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 C00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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