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🤔 ▶️ How can I better understand how people use a specific space?
🤔 ▶️ How can I better understand how people use a specific space?
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Written by Daniele Catalanotto
Updated over a year ago

Summary of the video

  • To design a space without a spatial designer, go to the space at different times to see the differences.

  • Design for the full range of use by understanding the needs of the people who will use the space.

  • Prioritize experience and interactions in space over furniture.

Video transcript

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If a service designer has to work with a space, And sadly he can't hire a spatial designer to work with them because, you know, budgets are limited or he doesn't know one.

What is one trick, one tip that you will say,

Please do that, and you are already doing something good

Go to, this place you have to design and one time you see it full busy with everybody, and then you go on the next day when it's empty

and you'll check out the same space from the same

position when it's empty.

So be in this space multiple times. At different times to see the differences.

Yes. Like probably the crazy change from busy to empty.

Design for the full range of use. Wonderful. What will be your advice?

Just speaking to the people and getting to know what they need.

Because they need the space, so you should get to know them and what they do.

Get to know people, understand what they do and why they are doing it here. Thank you so much.

Think about experience and interactions in space first. And then about the furniture.

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