At workshop one, participants had listed the main challenges they had with their own methods of personal data management. We then took these and created a card sorting activity for the participants to select their three most important aspects of the data platforms they used. On each of the 42 challenge cards, there was a statement for users to complete, such as ‘I like to keep my data secure by…’. These would then be used as starting points for prototyping in the afternoon.
Card sorting enabled the participants to consider the challenges they had ended the first workshop with, and assess their importance within their own individual systems. It also enabled them to consider what their future designs needed to address. Although they may have found issues with each card in the deck, by only selecting three or four they were able to begin to draft a set of technical specifications for their prototypes.