2015-09-17
Mini Empathic Design Workshop
Date: 10 Thursdays, 9am to 12pm - PDT
Participants
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Meeting Report
Jacob
Practiced empathetic listening, found some areas for improvement, completed 1 cycle of the design process. Decided to practice empathetic listening and bring 1 failure to next session.
Andreas
I enjoyed a lot today's meeting. Sharing my experiences when practicing empathic listening helped me a lot to see “failures” in a positive way. I feel happy that we managed this time in a relaxed way to reach this final meeting report of the human centered design process.
John
Initial stress due to technical hiccup, gradually revert back to normalcy, collective learning and insights, shared about self-attunement and reflecting on the natural and effective manner to engage and connect during a empathic listening practice.
Edwin We rushed through the mini design process again. which is ok. We had some technical problems to begin with but we got on track. We came up with a final prototype to test at the next meeting which was to celebrate our failures.. I feel quite energized about that because it is one of the principles of design to not be afraid of failure. ‘Fail early and fail often they say.’ i really enjoyed hearing all the experiences and insights from everyone and feel a real empathic growth cycle happening. We are getting more comfortable with the process and are ready for the next step of research.
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Empathy Circle Launch Question
Share your circle test and research story?
Explain your journey through the last 3 classes in the empathy circle and highlight lessons learnt.
Each hangout meeting has a google event page. This is the url to that page.
click on the link at the time and you should enter the google hangout.
Supplies Needed
( ) A white sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper
( ) pen
( ) Printout of Needs.pdf & Feelings.pdf list:
Video of the workshop will be placed here after it's done
Click on this link and it will open the meeting workbook as a google doc.
On arrival for the meeting, open the document and write you intention for the course and meeting on the first page.
This shared document is for taking notes, minutes, documentation during the class meeting. While people are doing the empathic listening, we can take notes about what has been said. Also post any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, etc etc, as they come up.
Meeting Folder
Each meeting has a shared google folder were the material for that meeting can be uploaded. This includes manuals, photos, interviews, etc.
