Co-Design Workshop Format

“Overview for Today” The workshop had a clear structure and allotted breaks to accommodate the anticipated needs of the neurodivergent co-designers.

1. “Learning more about you” prompted the co-designers to reflect upon their design education and the project-related habits they had previously developed.

2. “Co-Design” encouraged the co-designers to reflect upon the current and future states of design education and create actionable solutions.

3. “Reflection” gave the co-designers the opportunity to evaluate their work and state pros, cons, and next steps. This provided insights on how their solutions could be implemented in the future.

Co-Design Workshop Format (First Draft)

A first draft of the workshop format was tested in a pilot study of the co-design session. I had wanted to see if the neurodivergent designers could ideate different ways of approaching the design discovery and ideation processes.

However, this exercise was noticeably difficult for the pilot study’s test participants. Perhaps, these designers did not have a unique approach to these processes, which prompted me to develop open-ended prompts for co-design, as seen above.