We challenge the unquestioning pursuit of the appearance of objectivity and ingrained designer-user dualism in human-centred design research and propose a resurrection of introspection as a valid approach to investigating subjective experiences. Through comparing epistemic perspectives and reviewing the histories of introspection in several disciplines, we liberate the research field of experience-driven design from a long-lasting doubt about and the disguised and unsystematic use of this method. To establish a foundation for the further development of introspective methods, we focus on its most controversial type (i.e. researcher introspection) and discuss its strengths and weaknesses, preconditions of use, diverse ways to practise for different suitable experience-driven design research purposes, and useful techniques and tools.

我们挑战以人为本的设计研究中对客观性的出现和根深蒂固的设计师-用户二元性的坚定追求，并提出内省的复活是研究主观经验的有效方法。通过比较认识论的观点并回顾几门学科中的内省历史，我们摆脱了对这种方法的长期质疑以及其变相和非系统化的使用，从而解放了经验驱动设计的研究领域。为了为自省方法的进一步发展建立基础，我们集中于最有争议的类型（即研究者自省），并讨论其优势和劣势，使用的先决条件，针对不同的经验驱动设计研究目的进行实践的多种方式，以及有用的技术和工具。