A low cost approach to define user centered experiential project requirements.

该项目旨在开发一个低成本的工具包，帮助告知项目要求，以改善用户体验，福祉和生产力。该方法将用户对其当前空间的意见以及他们希望看到的改进与他们所占用空间的环境条件的数据结合在一起，包括空气质量、热舒适性、照明、声学等因素。该方法将通过为这些环境条件设置适当的要求来确定改善用户体验和业务成果的机会。通过迭代开发周期，目的是降低实现该方法的成本，因此它足够低，可以在最早的设计阶段快速实施，而不需要大量的“前期”客户投资。通过该项目，我们将探索能够通过‘免费增值’商业模式向客户提供这种服务的潜力，在这种模式下，他们不需要支付初始服务的费用。然后，可以通过提供基于用户信息和环境数据的专注、特定于环境的付费服务来实现盈利。这将代表着建筑设计行业的一种截然不同的商业模式，克服了人们对早期用户参与和数据收集成本高昂的看法。

This project aims to develop a low cost toolkit that helps inform project requirements to improve user experience, wellbeing and productivity. The approach combines user opinions on their current spaces and what improvements they would like to see with data on the environmental conditions of the spaces they occupy covering factors such as air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, acoustics, etc. The approach will identify opportunities to improve user experience and business outcomes through setting appropriate requirements for these environmental conditions. Through iterative development cycles, the intention is to reduce the cost of implementing the approach, so it is low enough to be undertaken quickly at the earliest design stages without significant 'upfront' client investment. Through the project we will explore the potential of being able to offer this to clients through a ‘freemium’ business model where they do not pay for the initial service. This could then be monetised through offering focused, context specific paid services based on user information and data on their environment. This would represent a radically different business model for the building design industry over-coming perceptions of the high cost of early stage user engagement and data collection.