A5Hiphophippotomi

A5Hiphophippotomi

To-Do

1. Please work as a group (minimum: 2 members; max: 6 members — discuss the answers between your group members) and submit one answer as a group (clearly identifying the members of your group)
2. Choose a web site and claim it as yours by editing the list on the Meta-Design Sites page (first come – first served)

Describe your understanding of meta-design in your own words (not copying a paragraph from a paper or a website)

Hiphophippotomi: Jon Mai, Ariel Aguilar, & Eric Holton

Meta design is design concept that aims to optimize a socio-technical infrastructure such that improvement can take place.Original designers anticipate that users will act as co-designers during the developmental phase. After the product is released from the original designers to the users, the control of the product is shifted. Users will discover needs and preferences that the original designers did not anticipate, simply by using the product. These new findings provide new knowledge for future products or systematic upgrades.

Setting: you are talking to another student who is interested in design; how would you explain to her/him the strengths and weakness of meta-design as a design methodology

Which Web site did you select?

http://secondlife.com/

Analyze your chosen web site from a meta-design perspective:

Please provide the names of your group members who contributed to this answer.