Practice of Field Based Design on a Traditional Craft Shop

Designing of Cost Calculator App for a Craft

Abstract

This study proposes a new design approach named “Field Based Design”. In standard Participatory Design, a designer often makes special environment such as workshop to find users’ needs. In our approach, a designer participates in users’ field and begins a design project with them. The aim of the approach is to understand users’ lifestyle, to share the design process with them and make them designers. In this study we did a design project based on users’ field. This paper shows how to make users designers, what the meaning of the design approach is, and what its possibility is.