In July 2019, JSTOR Labs led a one-week design sprint to explore the creation of a new tool for students and scholars studying the cultural history of plants. In collaboration with Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, the team conducted a series of design thinking activities to select, design and refine a concept to build. This presentation summarizes progress made during the week.

1. Alex Humphreys
@abhumphreys
July 19, 2019
Design Thinking,
Digital Humanities,
and a Tool for
Plant Humanists

2. JSTOR Labs works with partner publishers,
libraries and labs to create tools for
researchers, teachers and students that are
immediately useful – and a little bit magical.

4. WATERFALL (SDLC)

6. “Why is
new product
development
like academic
research?”

7. The Design Squiggle, by Damien Newman:
http://cargocollective.com/central/The-Design-Squiggle/

8. DESIGN THINKING

9. ITERATING, ITERATING, ITERATING, ITERATING, ITERA

10. JSTOR Labs works with partner publishers,
libraries and labs to create tools for
researchers, teachers and students that are
immediately useful – and a little bit magical.

11. But, in a sense, what we do is:
Applied Digital Humanities.

12. SO, WHAT’S ALL THIS
MEAN FOR THIS WEEK?

13. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release
OUR APPROACH:
July 15-19 at
Dumbarton Oaks

14. 1. Create
the sandbox
2. Research
& data prep
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release
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15. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

16. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

17. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

18. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

19. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

20. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

21. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

22. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

23. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

24. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

25. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release

26. 1. Create
the sandbox 2. Research
3. Design
jam
4. Select an
approach
5. Refine
approach 6. Release
In coming weeks:
• Implement knowledge-graph
creation tool
• Create example project
(Agave!)
• Release to academic year
fellows in September
Beyond September:
• Throughout the year, the
fellows will create the data for
the tool
• Work with fellows to define
and create format for the
output of this data (process
and product)
• Release public beta in 2020

27. Thank you
Alex Humphreys
Director, JSTOR Labs
ITHAKA
labs.jstor.org
@abhumphreys
alex.humphreys@ithaka.org