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Mother Angel or Swiss Knife?

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Advances in Design and Digital Communication IV (DIGICOM 2023)

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A mobile digital app development project involves several phases. This research developed in Learning Setting promoted an exploratory phase intending to promote greater reflexivity among students, where they can iteratively explore various codes and patterns of information. This research focuses on identifying design literacy elements that can guide the future development of a design proposal. In a design course learning setting, this paper focuses on developing an exploratory phase of a project for an app for the future Central Hospital of Alentejo (Portugal) . This Study aims to answer how a strategy combining a thematic analysis and an exploratory mapping contributes to reflexivity on solutions to explore in a project. The Study follows the methodologies of descriptive case study and thematic analysis. The results allowed the researchers to verify that using different mappings in the exploratory phases allows the students to exercise Reasoning in the context of the broader find patterns that surprise them and increase their Engagement with the project.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the class of the course of Interface Design II and the coordination of the degree of Design, School of Arts, University of Evora, Portugal.

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  1. CIAUD Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Sá Nogueira, Polo Universitário, Alto da Ajuda, 1349-055, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Gago & Rita Almendra

  2. CHAIA, Universidade de Évora, Largo Dos Colegiais 2, 7004-516, Évora, Portugal

    Tiago Marques

  3. CLLC, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ema Rolo

  4. Universidad de Las Islas Baleares, Palma, Spain

    Noemy Berbel

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José Gago: data collection (lead), conceptualization (lead), data curation (lead).

Tiago Marques: data curation (supporting).

Ema Rolo: conceptualization (supporting).

Rita Almendra: conceptualization (supporting).

Noemy Berbel: conceptualization (supporting).

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Correspondence to José Gago .

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  1. Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture, School of Design, Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Barcelos, Portugal

    Nuno Martins

  2. Communication and Society Research Centre, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Daniel Brandão

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Gago, J., Marques, T., Rolo, E., Almendra, R., Berbel, N. (2024). Mother Angel or Swiss Knife?. In: Martins, N., Brandão, D. (eds) Advances in Design and Digital Communication IV. DIGICOM 2023. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47281-7_52

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