LO: You will use empathy to design for an extreme user.
Essential Question: What is the role of empathy in the design process?
Design Thinking
Extraordinaires Design Project: Round 1 (20 min)
- Step 1: Pick your Character and Project Card. (answer character
- 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.
Character Deep Dive (10 min)
- 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).
Extraordinaire's
Day 1 - Character Deep Dive (15 min)
- Groups of two or three.
- Each group gets a set of cards.
- Choose a character card. Don't choose any other cards yet.
- Look closely at both sides of the card.
- In your group, answer questions for each of the 4 pictures (one on the front, three on the back) on the worksheet.
Character Deep Dive
(All together!)
- Look closely at the card below and answer:
The Extraordinaires
If you were creating a product for a real person, might you go about collecting information to get to know that person better?
The
Design Thinking
Cycle
1. Interview - ask questions
Broken into 5 (sometimes 6) phases:
2. Observe - and identify more questions
Design Thinking
Definition: An approach to solving problems by understanding user's needs and developing insights to solve those needs.
In which phase do we do research and perform interviews?
Design Thinking is a __________ and a _________
Entrance Quiz - Open Notes
3 minutes
The Mindset: "Only through contact, observation, and empathy with end-users can you hope to design solutions that fit into their environment."