This talk examines the role of user research in design for international development. How can designers work across different contexts and cultures and understand what will be effective solutions? How does a knowledge of people, place, and culture inform the design process? What is the process behind international development projects and the role of designers in this context?
TopicsEthics, Service Design, Social Innovation
How to map out the degrees and sites of participation in research?...
TopicsCommunity, Data, Disability, Environment, Ethics, Policy, Security, Social Networks
Digital tracking and profiling, personalizing users’ experience, monitoring their...
TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Social Innovation
How design is traumatizing, extractive, neocolonial, and conservative....
TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion, Service Design, Social Innovation
How can we form more authentic relationships and coalitions with community?...
TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Service Design, Social Innovation
How might designers bring a trauma-informed lens to their work?...
TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Service Design, Social Innovation
In what ways can we make research less burdensome for vulnerable communities?...
TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Service Design, Social Innovation
What are the specificities of conducting design research with vulnerable populations?...
TopicsMethodology, Service Design
How can we make storyboarding more participative and collaborative?...
TopicsEthics, Service Design, Social Innovation
How can proverbs be used to enrich our design research practice?...
TopicsMethodology
What is exploratory research and how can it complement evaluative or comparative research?...
DisciplineGame Design
TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion
Speaker Julia Keren-Detar
While gender has always played a role when it comes to games and toys, those lines...
DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design
TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Design Thinking
Speaker Anna Cook
Join us for a fireside chat with accessibility experts Anna, Bronwen, Trey, and...
DisciplineContent Strategy
TopicsCommunication, Design Strategy, Management & Strategy
Speaker Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Organizations are messy places: politics thwart progress, departmental squabbles are...
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