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The toolkit is organised into eight lenses and 101 cards or patterns. The eight lenses are a way of grouping the 101 cards according to different kinds of disciplinary worldviews or fields of research. The descriptions given here are based on Lockton’s introduction to the DwI toolkit. Access the complete tool kit here: open-access PDF
How to use the toolkit
There are different ways you can use the Design with Intent toolkit. It was originally developed to help inspire brainstorming and idea generation, but it can also be used to analyse existing examples of design that influences behaviour. Here are a few ways to use the tool:
Can you…? What would happen if…? How could you…?
Each pattern is phrased as a question — a provocation to invite discussion about the behaviour change question or brief you’re considering. You could go through all the cards and quickly decide the patterns’ relevance to your brief based on whether the answer is ‘Yes’, ‘No’, ‘Good’, ‘Bad’, ‘not sure’, etc.
Going through lens-by-lens
Lay out all the cards, grouped by lens, and go through each lens seeing whether the questions inspire any concepts for addressing your problem. In groups (e.g., 4 or 8 people) it often works well for one or two people to take a lens and become ‘mini-experts’ for a few minutes before reporting back to everyone else. A group discussion can then proceed to refine the ideas.
Cards or Worksheets
The worksheets, available at http://designwithintent.co.uk/downloads/, are good for group work or where you want an overview of each lens, while the cards enable more detailed deliberations over each pattern — or looking at sets of a few patterns rather than all of them.
Analyze existing examples and idea spaces
Try using the patterns to draw out some of the behavior-influencing principles behind products, services or environments you‘re familiar with, and see if there are gaps or opportunities to explore further.