I found this reading really fascinating. Before I read the
text I didn’t actually know what a cultural probe was so it was really
interesting to find out about these schemes and tasks that were put in place to
gather information about people. This reading talked about the advantages and
disadvantages of cultural probes and its relevance today. I learnt that cultural probes are used for
commercial design, they are used to find solution or to find out information
about peoples everyday lives. They involve tasks that inspire people’s
response so that they can get insight into individuals’ everyday lives. Often
they would be very useful but at times they would be very random as people were
not given many instructions. However, I think cultural probes are valid because
they may not show what the majority of people want but it unravels personal and
private affairs that most people would never know. Which I think is special because
you feel like your designing for a person not a mass. However I do not think I will be basing my essay on this topic.
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