Tools we use

  • Communication

    Communication

    … communication is intended here as the process of disseminating a project and making its results visible…

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  • Video animations

    Video animations

    VIDEO ANIMATIONS With the development of internet videos, (downloading, streaming on youtube, vimeo, dailymotion), animation movies, animated gifs, etc. video animations are a quite efficient way for communicating and sharing ideas. As…

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  • Exhibition

    Exhibition

    EXHIBITION Exhibitions tends to present finalised solutions to passive visitors. On the contrary, SDS tends to use exhibitions as a tool to prompt social conversation within a large number of…

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  • Ad-posters

    Ad-posters

    AD-POSTERS Advertising-like posters figure new product-service through a simulated advertising visual and related claim. Advertising is the way most users get a first contact with a new solution: it is…

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  • Key-frame

    Key-frame

    KEY-FRAME A new solution based on a mix of products and services requires often a sequence showing an interaction with users in context to be properly presented. Key-frame is an…

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  • Systemization

    Systemization

    … to build system-maps, to trigger players to question their current relationships, to establish new partnerships, new communities of practices…

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  • Online platform

    Online platform

    ONLINE PLATFORM Facilitating exchange of experiences and knowledge brokering; developing partnership and synergies between distant stakeholders; fostering collaboration and exchange within a neighbourhood… can be enhanced by appropriate and open…

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  • Enabling kits

    Enabling kits

    ENABLING KITS Producing enabling kits means to design a complete set of elements that may enable people to perform a particular activity in a more autonomous way: instructions and check-lists;…

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  • System map

    System map

    SYSTEM-MAP System organisation maps shows the organisation between different stakeholders to perform a solution. They are based on an open library of graphic elements (icons, pictures, arrows…) and a set…

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  • Visualisation & Simulation

    Visualisation & Simulation

    “…talking about sustainable transition, stakeholders are obsessed with what they may loose because they feel difficult to imagine what they may gain… Envisioning, visualising, showing in concrete terms ‘how life…

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  • Evidencing

    Evidencing

    EVIDENCING Evidencing are touch points of new product-service systems. They are material evidences of a service and by extension of this notion, they can also be a series of instantiations…

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  • Rapid prototyping

    Rapid prototyping

    RAPID PROTOTYPING A tentative solution based on a mix of new artefacts, distant services providers, complex architecture of software application, etc, is simulated by part and with possibly already existing…

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  • Photo-stories

    Photo-stories

    PHOTO-STORIES Photo-stories presenting a fiction through a series of scenes shoot in photography and used as comic stripe provide an accessible and engaging form of visualisation: users project themselves easily…

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  • Story-script

    Story-script

    STORY-SCRIPT The script is the backbone of the narration, it points the key-moments of an interaction picturing both its overall meaning and the processes to achieve it. Story-scripts are in…

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  • Video-sketching

    Video-sketching

    VIDEO-SKETCHING Video camera is used as a sketching tool in order to quickly visualise and communicate the interaction between a new product-service and potential users in context. The video style…

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  • Supports to Strategic conversation

    Supports to Strategic conversation

    “…when you pick-up an apple with the intention to eat it or to through it away, the same gesture is triggered by the activation of different zones of your brain:…

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  • Co-design lab

    Co-design lab

    CO-DESIGN LAB Co-design sessions are based on creative integration of multiple activities: SDS co-design lab is an open space organised as a movie studio with ‘flying walls’ and video networks…

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  • Creative conversation workshop

    Creative conversation workshop

    CREATIVE CONVERSATION WORKSHOP Projects at a city scale involving multiple stakeholders or challenging a company and all its different department requires moments of creative exchange to converge towards a shared…

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  • Story-telling

    Story-telling

    STORY-TELLING Story-telling is at start the most simplest process: just tell the story! What will you do in that place? How will you use that device? What your day-to-day life…

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  • Participative investigation

    Participative investigation

    …we look for what we call ‘friendly users’ which is to say, people assessing the new product-service but in a positive and friendly way, with empathy and willingness to overcome…

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  • Residence

    Residence

    In collaboration with the public innovation lab La 27e Région, we develop and experience a residence format based on long immersion sessions of small creative and interdisciplinary team to engage…

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  • Field Lab

    Field Lab

    From classical focus groups or interviews conducted in-vivo to long and in-depth, field interactions inspired by ethnographic approaches, we take a journey to visit houses, sneak into kitchens…

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  • ICON MAPPING

    ICON MAPPING

    With help of icon-cards, stakeholders are encouraged to draw their daily patterns, explain their habits, and map the contexts of use and complex practices in which the usage of a…

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  • Experimentation of new tools

    Experimentation of new tools

    When asked “what are the tools SDS is using, we tend to list some of our favourites… But most of the time we don’t have ready-to-use tools: we design our…

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