LO: You will use empathy to design for an extreme user.
Essential Question: What is the role of empathy in the design process?
- In your group, shuffle and pick a project card.
- Return to your character card. Look carefully at both the front and back of the card.
- As a group, answer the ALL questions on the worksheet (front and back).
- Step 1: Grab your Character and Project Card.
- Step 2: Pick a Think Card.
- Step 3: Ideate with your group members. Remember to:
- Use the observations you made yesterday to brainstorm solutions that meet the needs of your character.
- Step 4: Answer the prompts to the Think Card on the back of your design sheet.
- Step 5: Sketch and describe your design.
- I will come around and ask questions as you work.
- I will take pictures of your design and upload it to The Extraordinaires website so that we can become a part of their community.
Design Thinking
Extraordinaires Design Project: Round 1 (20 min)
Character Deep Dive (10 min)
Design Thinking as Human-Centered Design
Empathy (defined):
the ability to understand and share feelings with another.
Design Thinking
Do Now: Answer in your notes (3 min)
Definition: An approach to solving problems by understanding user's needs and developing insights to solve those needs.
Below is the Giant, another of the Extraordinaries. Look closely at the pictures and answer the following:
1. What do you observe? (Find as many things as you can.)
2. What can you infer from your observations?
3. What special needs does the giant have?
Do Now: Answer in your notes (3 min)
1. What are the 5 phases of the Design Thinking Cycle?
2. Yesterday we learned about our characters by making observations and drawing inferences from what we saw on their cards. Which phase of the Design Thinking cycle does this occupy? How do you know?
3.