So I am on a sort of mini research sabbatical this month which means I finally get a moment to think about sharing some of the exciting work we’ve been doing in articulating our design research. As a Considered Design agency design research is a critical part of our scoping phase. It’s how we really get to immerse and learn about clients and their stakeholders, the world they live in now, and the world they hope to live in 3, 6, 9 12, 24 months time. We consider the opportunities and options, and pick out a path (or let one emerge) that is most applicable to the specificities of each situation and context. It’s an incredibly exciting part of the process as each client and project is different. We have a range of methods that we employ (e.g naked personas, imaginary scenarios and mobile diaries) to reveal these things and I am planning to post some more detailed writing on how these work and why we use them in the near future. In the meantime, I wanted to share this representation of our process, developed for us by lovely friend and artist Emma Magenta, as it really is the best depiction of the Digital Eskimo design research process we’ve managed to date.