Design Research

From the tutorial with Carol, she suggested that I look into social design, preventative design and changing behavior methods to further understand what I am trying to do within this project.

This has definitely helped me further understand what design method I want to use for my project to convey my message across to my target market as this is where I want to push my message to. Increasing the elements of social design and behaviour change to ensure rugby players are diligent when playing rugby and educating the younger generation I think is very important as they are the next generation to play rugby and they need to be educated more on concussions and the effect is has on your brain and this can therefor lead to Motor Neurone Disease. This needs to be done in an informational manner but further more to educate the younger generation to ensure that they are more careful especially in the domestic level as this isn’t taken as seriously as professional level.

I want to push and design out this protect as this subject needs to be pushed to the public and most certainly the Mini’s, this topic needs to be taken more seriously as it effects the person but also the public as it needs to be pushed and the mentality of players – such as some players don’t care about the later effects of concussion as player who have had a concussions in previous matches are more likely to get concussed more frequently, an example of this is George North, Patrick Lambie etc these players are an example of players who have had multiple concussions are more likely to have an increased risk of MND and ALS.

My aim is to create a prevention time design to ensure that occupational injuries are reduced by implementing safety measures, informational packs etc but without players questioning whether or not they should play rugby but more so to educate them on it.