Participate: Designing with User-generated Content (Design Briefs) - Softcover

Armstrong, Helen; Stojmirovic, Zvezdana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616890258 ISBN 13: 9781616890254

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011

Synopsis

Creativity is no longer the sole territory of the designer and other creative professionals. Amateurs are drawn to websites such as Flickr, Threadless, WordPress, YouTube, Etsy, and Lulu, approaching design with the expectation that they will fill in the content. Never has user-driven design been easier for the public to generate and distribute. How will such a fundamental shift toward bottom-up creation affect the design industry? Designing for Participatory Culture considers historical and contemporary models of making that provide ideas for harnessing user-generated content through participatory design. The authors discuss how designers can lead the new breed of widely distributed amateur creatives rather than be overrun by them. DPC challenges designers to transform audiences into users, and completed layouts into open-ended systems. The book opens with an introductory essay entitled 'Ceding Control,' which explores the general concept of participatory culture and the resulting emergence of systems-oriented models of co-creation. Four chapters Modularity, Flexibility, Community, and Technology explore the various approaches to participatory design through critical essays, case studies, and interviews with leading designers in the field.

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Review

"Armstrong and Stojmirovic skillfully detail the potential of participatory design." -- Communication Arts

About the Author

Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at the Cooper- Hewitt Museum and director of the MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the author of "Thinking with Type "and "D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself, "and with her sister Julia Lupton, "Design Your Life."

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616890258
• ISBN 13: 9781616890254
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160