Design and Product Development

Using Precedent Analysis, Interviews, Archetypes, and Design Sprints to Inform Designing

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Abstract

Disinfection is essential to healthcare, yet its efficient implementation in remote, resource-limited settings remains a challenge. Portable disinfection devices reimagine conventional systems through adaptable, user-centred design strategies. The design research presented here employed multiple methods within a Human-Centred Design (HCD) framework to develop comprehensive design criteria for a portable disinfection device for healthcare professionals working in austere environments, as well as urban hospitals. A qualitative approach utilized precedent analysis (PA), immersive semi-structured interviews, archetype development, and a design sprint. Each method employed provided ideas that contributed to synthesizing comprehensive design criteria for the final disinfection devices, including functional, aesthetic, regulatory, expressive and electronic elements to create the FARE² model. The progressive phases of inquiry used in this project, combined with the FARE² model, provide a rigorous framework for design, well-suited to cultivate comprehensive design criteria and aid design development of products, services, and environments in healthcare sectors.

Keywords: Human-centred design, product development, precedent analysis, archetypes, design sprint

How to Cite:

Kumar, K., Yates, M., Tullio Pow, S. & Marquez-Chin, C., (2025) “Using Precedent Analysis, Interviews, Archetypes, and Design Sprints to Inform Designing”, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/itaa.19776