Participatory Design

(1) What surprised you?

I love that by working with stakeholders, we are Improving the knowledge that we are Feeding into the design process! I think this is such an obvious, simple idea and yet it is so deeply profound and such an epiphany! I am super surprised that I didn't think of this earlier while teaching school. I guess it's because teachers of elementary kids are super busy. I really hope that we can use this knowledge to fix our nations education system.

(2) What do you wonder?

I wonder how we can acknowledge the opinions of difficult stake holders and still be able to create the right design that will effect the most amount of the targeted group? How do we find the Right stakeholders to use for the right projects? Can we choose unwisely, and if so how do we remedy?

(3) What are you struggling to understand?

I am struggling to see how I my self can work on and gain interest towards projects that I'm just not that interested in. I think I must do things that I truly believe in and 100 present vested. It should also help by seeing the impact for good it can have for the stakeholders AND how the stakeholders can help make it in to their own which will have a more profound impact on themselves and populations that are like them.

I really enjoyed the EpiPen Participatory Design project and I hope we can see more like that!

"Shouldn't you have a say in what's actually being designed?"

"We may think we know what's required... But that's just our single perspective."

Increase the success of our design

Perspective:

Stakeholders as experts: They have knowledge that we don't.

Their lived experiences

their current context and practices

What is important or meaningful to them?