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Well-designed interactive experiences connect people, meet their needs, life-styles and life choices, and can make a positive difference on their wellbeing. The overall challenge of people-centred innovation can be summarised in how to design value for people — as well as for companies and society. To be able to create value, designers need to explore, validate and reflect upon the different design choices and their intended impact. In turn, this demands methods for understanding needs and motivations of the users, exploring solutions and designing business models. There isn’t one single way to organise these tasks. Nevertheless, it may be helpful to learn from frameworks that offer a basic recipe consisting of checklists and a structure for the work to be done. In this paper, we introduce a concept development tool to support value creation for both designers and stakeholders, which we call People Value Canvas (PVC), according to which users’ needs and wishes can be systematically identified for the purpose of the further conceptualization of innovative solutions with a technological component. The PVC is intended for designers and stakeholders involved in social innovation, and who are interested in how media ICT can be employed to promote design for social interaction. We approached the PVC as a reflective, systematic tool during the design process. The tool proved valuable in discussing new concepts since it gave structure to constructive conversations and showed the interdependencies between the different design aspects. Additional research will help to understand this even more. |
