CS Board

User research, ideation, sketching, prototyping, user testing

Project Overview

The challenge of this project was to design something that would help the students and teachers at an esports class for youths with multiple psychological diagnoses. Through thorough research and ideation we developed the CS Board; a physical board with digital features to help strategize and communicate as a team leading up to and following each game of Counter-Strike.

My Contributions

Being a highly collaborative project I was involved in most of the processes, such as observation and interviewing and user testing. The contributions where I took the main responsibility consisted of ideation and sketching as well as the laser cutting of the final prototype.

The final prototype of CS Board.

Desk research

A lot of time went into researching the areas of esports in academic articles and design projects as well as the areas of autism and other phsychological disorders.

Contextual inquiry

To empathize with the students at the esports class we undertook contextual inquiry which combines observation with interviews in the context and situation for which one is designing. This gave us a lot of interesting findings.

Ideation with Method 635