Bringing This Week’s Feedback Together

I’ve watched 2 big lectures and had some key feedback this week, heres my thoughts.

This week I received three pieces of feedback that have helped me rethink where my project needs to go next. Although they came from different places, they all seem to point towards the same thing: I need to understand the problem more deeply before deciding what I am designing.

Webinar 1 — Let the Research Lead the Design

My main takeaways were:

• Do not decide on the app too early.
• Research should build an argument for why a design intervention is needed.
• Look critically at what airports already provide and identify what is missing.
• Every design decision should eventually be traceable back to evidence.
• The final outcome does not need to solve every aspect of autistic travel.

The biggest shift for me was recognising that the design should emerge from the research, rather than using research to justify an idea I already have.

Webinar 2 — Analyse, Evaluate, Then Make

The second webinar helped me understand what I actually need to demonstrate at Master’s level:

• Move beyond collecting research into analysing and evaluating it.
• Compare academic research, lived experience, primary research and existing design.
• Experiment with multiple responses before settling on a final direction.
• Show iteration, testing and reflection through Studio Practice.
• Make the journey from research → design decision → outcome visible.

This made me realise that I probably have enough broad research now. The important thing is what I do with it.

Student Feedback — What Happens Before the Airport?