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Tuesday, January
12th
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Needfinding and
Context Discovery for Assistive Technologies
Gayle Curtis
UX
Design Consultant |
Abstract: When we look at the
drivers of innovation we see two complementary themes emerging: new
technologies or methods that open the way to new solutions, and new insights or
experiences that bring a better understanding of the problem. With a design
thinking approach, we first look to build empathy with the user and the
situation, then we use ideation, prototyping and iteration to explore,
formulate, and test solutions.
This class session will go into more
depth with the candidate projects and to build an understanding of the problem
areas with the objective of learning more about the user needs, goals, and
values around the problem, as well as the constraints and requirements of the
situation itself. One goal for this session is for students to identify a set
of questions to address through interview and observation with real users of
assistive technologies, as well as some good ideas about people that student
teams might talk to and work with to inspire both innovation and relevance for
the team project.
Biosketch:
Gayle Curtis is a design consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area,
specializing in user interface architecture and design strategy for online
ventures and interactive products. Recently he was Principal Interaction
Designer at Yahoo!, where he developed a practice area in strategic ideation
and disseminated it through workshops in the US and Asia. At Stanford he has
taught courses in HCI and Product Design. Gayle is a graduate of the
Engineering Product Design program at Stanford.
Contact information:
- Gayle Curtis
- gcurtis -at-
gaylecurtis.com
- Lecture Material:
- Pre-lecture slides - 490 Kb pdf file
- Slides - 980 Kb pdf file
- Video - 1:19:38
- Photos - 1.77 Mb pdf file
- Links:
- What to
do in Need Finding
- Observant
Observing
- Interviewing
and Observing – Agile Aging
- Need
Finding Tools
- How
can you prepare engineering students to work with people with
disabilities?
- What
are some hints for communicating with individuals who have
disabilities?
- Disability Helping
Etiquette That Lets You Relax and Interact with Respect
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