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Design Kit: Acumen/IDEO - Human-Centered Design Course
We are forming facilitated teams to take the Human-Centered Design Course. This is a 7 week course, however, since we are doing our own design challenge it takes longer and we will go for 10 weeks. There are;
4 to 6 people per team.
10 week commitment.
5+ hours per week time commitment.
(3 hour weekly meetings)
(2+ hours readings, research, etc.)
This course is facilitated by Edwin Rutsch who has lead many design teams through the course.
An experienced facilitator to guide you through the course online. Edwin Rutsch is founding director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy and is a world expert on empathy. We will take a deep dive into the mindset and the skill of empathy.
We will use Mural.ly as the online work, brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration space. Edwin has a professional educators Mural.ly account which we will use for the course. (Mural is usually $29 a month and you will not need to pay this.)
The Design Kit lessons are all ported to the Mural platform so they work in an online format.
All the Google Hangouts meetings spaces, scheduling, reminders, various details, etc. will be taken care of.
We will add extra learnings and practices to the course, like the Team Canvas, learning to use Mural.ly, empathy maps, empathy exercises, etc.
We will be doing our own custom design challenge which is initially,
How might we design the empathy circle process?
Not only will you learn about the design process and mindset, you will also do a deep dive into how to deepen your empathy skills, which are a prerequisite to being a better designer and human being for that matter.
To Take Part
( ) 1. Send me an email about your interest: EdwinRutsch@gmail.com
( ) 2. Fill out your time availability
We will find a meeting day/time that works best for everyone
( ) 3. Register for the course at the Acumen website:
February 7, 2017 - April 11, 2017
( ) 4. Sign up on our Facebook Event page
( ) 5. We will do an interview on Skype. My Skype id: EdwinRutsch
Teams Forming
Upcoming workshop; February 7, 2017 - April 11, 2017
See Our past Teams
We meet Using Google Hangouts
Recording: If we wish, the workshop can be recorded and placed on YouTube for educational, research, transcription and promotional purposes.
Meetings Outline
This is the basic course outline
Meeting 1: Class 1: Introductions, Using Mural, Team Canvas, Empathic Listening.
We take 3 meetings to do Class 1 by doing 3 full iterations of the mini design process. Begin testing parts of the circle at home, school, community, work, online, etc.
Manuals: Getting started - Readings - Workshop
How to Frame Your Own Design Challenge
Meeting 2: Class 1: Mini Empathic Design
Meeting 3: Class 1: Mini Empathic Design
Meeting 4: Class 2: Inspiration: Prepare & Conduct Research
Research, interviews, do empathy circles at home, school, community, work, online, etc.
Meeting 5: Class 2: Inspiration: Conduct Research (Mini Design)
Meeting 6: Class 3: Ideation: Synthesis
Our design team will start turning what you’ve learned into solutions!
Meeting 7: Class 3: Ideation: (extra slip day)
Meeting 8: Class 4: Ideation: Prototyping
Selecting the most promising ideas, and then building out those concepts and creating prototypes to test them.
Meeting 9: Class 4: Ideation: Prototyping
In the second week of this Class, your team will go out into the world to test your prototype with the people you're designing for and gain valuable feedback from the community.
Meeting 10 - Class 5: Implementation
Design Resources
Introduction Videos To Human-Centered Design
DESIGN KIT: The Course for human-centered design
" The Course for Human-Centered Design is a 10-week curriculum that will introduce you to the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change."
Manuals from the last workshop and other class materials.
Edwin has done the course 5 times already on the design challenge of creating more empathy in the world.
Interviews with design experts about design and empathy.
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