The first thing we did in the session was discuss what we do when we are in the process of doing some design work, both the stuff we document and the stuff we do that helps us but we don't document.
Then, individually we had to organise it into some sort of diagram that demonstrates how we go through our thought process individually, and shows what stages are in it.
I found this really useful, much more so than I was anticipating, as I'd never actually sat down before and thought about how I do my work. By actually thinking about it and assessing I've realised just how complex the process is, and how the result would be affected by missing any of the stages.
Then we had to translate this into a 3D form by folding paper into a shape, leaflet or whatever, into something that reflects how the stages of our thought process interact with each other.
The photo on the left shows the shape I folded my piece of paper into as it shows how the intensity of the process increases in the middle, and as you get further away from the process, it results in the work you do being less valuable, as well as showing the drop in intensity and attitude that I get when this happens.
The photo on the right shows how it looked after I'd annotated it and folded it all in, and I think it shows the process at it's simplest quite well, where all the less obvious sections of the process are hidden.
In all honesty I found this exercise slightly less useful because I don't really think it added anything extra as to how I think about my process, although what it did do was start me off thinking about how I could translate my process into 3D.
