INTERVIEWS
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Step 1: Empathize
Step 1: Empathize
The first step of the design process is to empathize with the users and stakeholders
"The Empathize mode is the work you do to understand people, within the context of your design challenge. It is your effort to understand the way they do things and why, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about world, and what is meaningful to them. "- An Introduction to Design Thinking PROCESS GUIDE
"The Empathize mode is the work you do to understand people, within the context of your design challenge. It is your effort to understand the way they do things and why, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about world, and what is meaningful to them. "- An Introduction to Design Thinking PROCESS GUIDE
Our team conducted various interviews with various undergraduate and graduate engineering students, professors, and graduate school deans. Below, you can find the discussion guides we followed, striking interview quotes, and emergent themes.
If you would like to read the transcribed interviews, you can read them here.
Of all our interviews, we found user 'ug1-aa' to be our most extreme user.
Of all our interviews, we found user 'ug1-aa' to be our most extreme user.
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*For privacy reasons, we changed ug1-aa's name and undergraduate university
Sebby is an engineer from Mexico who recently graduated from Cal Poly Slo. He plans to return to the same company he interned at the summer before and will begin working in August (giving himself a 3-month break since school). He shares with us the racial tensions he experienced in College and his decision process for choosing industry work over academia.
Listen to Part I of our podcast with Sebby to hear his story.
- Part I delves into the racial tensions Sebby faced in college
Here is Part II of our podcast with Sebby.
- Part II explores why Sebby chooses to pursue industry work over academia at a graduate program.
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