Photo Audit
After the interviews we gave each tween their own camera with a notebook attached. We asked them to take photographs of their lives, which included their rooms, backpacks, friends, family, and daily activities and to write any comments in the attached notebook.
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The instructions included requests such as:
- Document a day in your life
- Take pictures of people, places and things that are important to you.
- Take a picture of your most valued object that you didn’t buy.

Insights
Once the tweens completed their photo journal, they mailed the cameras and notebooks back to us. We developed the photos and then laid them out on a table to look for new insights and information not gathered from the traditional interviews. We found several themes that emerged from the photographs and journals. We gathered the similar photographs and notebook entries together and created several spreads of the imagery in the design research book. The themes we found from their photos were self-portraits, trophies, collections, creativity, friends, pets, technology, personal space, toys and sports.