Role-playing
What
Role-playing is a way of assessing a solution through acting.
Why
Role-playing can provide experience-based understanding of a solution quickly and easily. This allows you to evaluate and improve the solution at an early stage of its development.
How
- Consider how you could simulate the solution through role-playing. What will the experience, the process or the interaction of the solution look like? How could this be represented through role-playing? What does the scenario look like? Which roles are there? Do you need a script? Which props, scenery and costumes could support the role-play?
- Create the items needed for the role-play. If needed, write a script, make props and costumes, build the scenery and so on.
- Assemble a team of actors (these could be your teammates), assign the roles, discuss the script and ready everything.
- Ask a group of people to take part in the role-play and to take on the role of the solution’s target group (which they may actually be).
- Play the scenario.
- Afterwards, reflect on the experience together with the actors and participants. What drew your attention? How did it feel? Could this solution work in reality? What would you have to pay attention to? What could be improved? But also: what went well and should be kept?