Co-design is an increasingly popular approach in HCI and visualization, yet there is little guidance on how to effectively apply this method in visualization contexts. In this paper, we visually present our experience of a two-and-a-half-year co-design project with the local arts community. Focusing on facilitating community exploration and sense-making around arts funding distribution, the project involved a series of co-design sessions between visualization researchers and members of the arts community. Through these iterative sessions, we built shared understanding and developed visualization prototypes tailored to community needs. However, the practice is far from complete, and we found ourselves continually returning to the "fuzzy front end" of the co-design process. We share this ongoing story through comic-style visuals and reflect on three fuzzy front ends that we encountered during the project. By sharing these experiences with the visualization community, we hope to offer insights that others can draw on in their own community-engaged co-design work.

翻译：协同设计在HCI与可视化领域日益普及，但在可视化语境中如何有效应用该方法仍缺乏明确指导。本文通过视觉化方式呈现了我们与本地艺术社群为期两年半的协同设计项目经验。该项目聚焦于促进社群对艺术资金分配的探索与意义建构，通过可视化研究者与艺术社群成员开展系列协同设计工作坊，在迭代过程中建立共识并开发符合社群需求的可视化原型。然而实践远未完结，我们发现自己不断回归协同设计流程的“模糊前端”。我们通过漫画式视觉叙事呈现这一持续进程，并反思项目中遭遇的三个模糊前端。通过向可视化社群分享这些经验，我们希望为其他社群参与式协同设计工作提供可资借鉴的见解。