
Explore design research methodologies through a real-time case study on sex education awareness, learning how to talk to people and gather information for design projects.
Explore awareness of sexual education through interviews, observation, mind mapping, and case studies such as ideal and frog design, identifying India's sex education variables and youth impact.
Apply the IDEO method staples—expert interviews, analogous inspiration, immersion, and observation—to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and design effective sex education research.
Analyze secondary research to validate information, map media influences on sex education, and design accessible awareness campaigns via posters, comics, and social media, guided by mind maps and cause-effect analysis.
Create simple comics and illustrations for social media to promote sex education, raise awareness of bodies and menstruation, and challenge taboos through accessible visuals that encourage dialogue.
Learn essential research methods—observation, interviews, and open-ended questions—to gain authentic insights, connect observations to the design problem, and build ethical, collaborative, diverse teams.
Demonstrate real-time paper making from banana fibers, water hyacinth, and cinnamon cloth, including shredding, pulping, frame-forming, sun drying, and pressing, while exploring process challenges and cinnamon plus clove paper ideation.
Explore a sustainable packaging for sweets by using mashed paper reinforced with banana fiber and water hyacinth, adding cinnamon and clove to deter ants, validated with a final test drop.
observe how the team blends banana fibers and water hyacinth, creates pulp, and crafts sun-dried snow cinnamon plus clove based paper for sustainable packaging, detailing exploration and challenges.
About the Master Calss:
This course teaches about how to do a design research methodology effectively irrespective of your problems. Many nuances and techniques which are easily applicable for your research methodology when it comes to extraction of data which is primary research, secondary research or any other question research if you are doing these techniques are largely helpful. IDEO methods have been really used so that people can easily understand how to ask questions, how to observe and how to speak and gather information using these IDEO techniques people can directly apply to the research principles in order to make it very qualitative and quantitative.
Benefits of the Master Class:
This course talks about how to improve the research methodology skills which is needed for doing primary secondary and tertiary research being a designer.
IDEO methods have been largely used so that their case studies and learning could be easily transferred for our design projects which is ask speak listen observe.
When it comes to topic like sexual education people don't give you direct answers so this course teaches about how to even answer how to even ask that kind of a topic to common public in order to get effective answers needed for your research.
When it comes to topic like this even related to death sexual education and very social stigma topics how do you ask people and make a very conversation so that you will have a very good information needed for your research this is largely explained with practical examples pertaining to this project in detail.
Students can learn about how to do a field study, how to extract information and how to document it properly with the form of design thinking process along with the team.
Also when you are strong in research it will lead to a proper design process and completion of the project. Sometimes a wrong research methodology and the data can make the project go into waste, and subsequently even it can make it a great success if the data is good.
Discussed about what is qualitative research and quantitative research and how it can be used for waiting and of approaches for your project based on the context of what you are researching.
Team working mind mapping and then finally ideating to work on different solutions and coming up with a final prototype.