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Process 1

[danieldrury]

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Process One Research Collaboration

As I scoured the internet for good collaborative practices and collated them, I also started work on understand how toolkits work. I have never before designed a toolkit before, so this was a new area of research for me. By first understanding how toolkits work, I could then plug in my learnings from the collaborative practices to the requirements of the toolkit. 

Toolkits are exactly what it says on the tin. A kit of tools, designed to help the user with the task at hand. A method toolkit is a collection of exercises and activities designed to propagate knowledge and scale impact of the same. Research and experiments conducted in one place are usually packaged into a toolkit in an attempt to replicate impact at scale. 

The Collective Action Toolkit, by Frog Design for example, breaks down the process of collaborating and creating solutions for issues affecting a community. The steps are explained with the help of suggested activities, diagrams, and workshop structures. 

Similarly, the Business Action Toolkit by Nesta helps entrepreneurs get their startups running by advising them on creating a business model.

This toolkit created by Nicholas Felton, provides users easy to refer to cards to help them visualise data with Processing. 

Toolkits are very good at breaking down an activity, or a problem into multiple steps that are easier to comprehend and tackle. By making a seemingly difficult process easy to understand and simplify the course of action required. Once the process becomes easier to follow, users are more likely to follow through, and be successful in their task.