Category Archives: Design Research Log

Today is presentation day. This afternoon we will all make our presentations to tutors and our logs will be assessed over the week-end. This has been an intense module with a lot of lectures in the first week then a lot … Continue reading →

An update on my auto-ethnography (petrol buying habits diary). Each day I’ve bought petrol at Morrisons as part of a journey so I haven’t made any extra petrol journeys since I started this research. I’m a bit surprised at this … Continue reading →

Day 12 This was another studio day. We have been working on the slides and boards for Friday. I’ve felt this has been our least productive day, certainly for me. Jamie has been busy with the board visuals and Katherina … Continue reading →

The good news today is that I had read the camera availability timetable wrong and I managed to sign it back out and digitise the film from the tape. The footage has been converted into a short stop-motion clip (around 10 seconds … Continue reading →

This was a day spent in the studio going over all the information we’ve gathered both from the street interviews and our individual observations at supermarket/petrol station combined sites. We all put our main points (as we saw them) on … Continue reading →

I asked a Ladybank resident who is know to me for an informal interview regarding her fuel buying habits. (Age range 25-35) She did know about the petrol station in Ladybank but wasn’t driving when it was open. The interviewee gets … Continue reading →

For our individual observations we decided to monitor customer visits to supermarkets and their associated petrol stations. Mine took place at Morrisons in Glenrothes for an hour on Saturday 8th October and Tesco in Cupar for an hour on Sunday … Continue reading →

An article in the Guardian from August 2007 highlights the initial issue we (as a group) discussed, the loss of petrol stations in small communities. The article also discusses the closure of Post Offices but states that petrol stations are … Continue reading →

I have been conducting an exercise in auto-ethnography by making notes about my own petrol buying habits. Over the last three days I have gone to to the petrol station (Morrisons, Glenrothes) as part of a pre-planned journey. I tend to get petrol … Continue reading →

As stated in the previous post I spent today typing up and publishing my notes from the past 2 days. I was also working this afternoon at the Adam Smith College. Day 10 will see the team collating and analysing … Continue reading →

Day 8 was the day we went to Ladybank in Fife to carry out our field research. We each had to carry out 2 interviews using the questions we decided upon in Day 7, we each also have an additional … Continue reading →

This was a quiet day compared to the others. I did a bit of laser engraving to give the team a wearable identity badge while we are out interviewing and observing in the field. This is an idea blatantly stolen from Lauren … Continue reading →

Day 6 began with the group going over our presentation and the resulting analysis of it by the tutors. We came to the decision that we needed to narrow down our proposals and clearly define a research question before beginning … Continue reading →

I found out on Friday that I’m in Group B for the duration of this module along with Jamie, Jie, Junying and Katherinna. In the morning we looked through our short-list of the RSA briefs and chose ‘Recharging Stations’. Brief Re-conceive or find … Continue reading →

Day 4 was a working (at Adam Smith College) day for me so I wasn’t in DoJ. I’ve been contacted by classmates about our team working exercise and the RSA briefs. We’ll be discussing these tomorrow (Friday) although I’ve had a read … Continue reading →

Hasn’t happened for me because I stayed at home being ill. Something I ate or a stomach bug I picked up from somewhere. A positive is that at least I got some reading and writing done. I actually didn’t notice the day slipping … Continue reading →

26 Sept 2011 Today we heard firstly from Professor Mike Press who dealt two main topics, the relationships between practice and research in design, and two examples of his own research projects. The first section was an introduction to what research … Continue reading →