Tuesday, January 17th
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John Thiemer - Presentation of student
team project from last year. The RAFT project sought to develop new
classroom-based educational activities appropriate for children with
disabilities.
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Need Finding for Assistive
Technologies
Gayle Curtis
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.
In this class session we will go into more
depth with the candidate projects and build our understanding of the problem
areas. We want to learn 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 you to identify a set of questions that you
want to address through interview and observation with real users of assistive
technologies, as well as some good ideas about people that your team might talk
to and work with to inspire both innovation and relevance for your
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! Earlier he was
Creative Director for Information Architecture at Vivid Studios / ModemMedia,
and he has led the interaction design and user experience architecture for
several startup ventures. At Stanford he has taught courses in Product and HCI
Design, and he is most recently part of the teaching team at the d.school. At
Yahoo! he developed a practice area in strategic ideation and disseminated it
through workshops in the US and Asia.
- Contact information:
- gcurtis -at- gmail.com
- Lecture Material:
- Pre-lecture
slides- 454 Kb pdf file
- Slides - 248
Kb pdf file
- Audio -
1:30:59 - 20.8 Mb mp3 file
- Project
questions
- Links:
- What to
do in Need Finding
- Observant
Observing
- Interviewing
and Observing – Agile Aging
- Need
Finding Tools
- Photos:
- Arne Folkedal
- Dave
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