The Loan Surprise Game
There are all kinds of ways that you can learn from the communities you’re looking to serve. An IDEO.org team working on designing mobile financial tools to help victims of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines devised an ingenious way to understand how people felt about getting loans. They made a board game. In the Loan Surprise Game, the team set up shop in an area where they knew lots of[...]
Card Sort
Purpose Card sorting allows you to understand how users organize information and concepts Outcomes Understand how individuals break down big concepts and their motivations in decision making Gaining quick input on how users mental model is built up to ensure systems are structured to fit their way of thinking. Detailed Steps Define Determine the area for exploration. Depending on the project, the area could be something broad (i.e., “Family” or[...]
Mind Mapping
Mind maps can be great tools when facing complex problem. They are organic in their structure and allows us to, via a visual representation, explain how a system or concept is related. Start in the center of your page with the subject you want to mind map around. For instance “Farm.” Break down the main concept into the areas it relates to. For instance “Animals”, “Buildings”, Equipment”, “Nature”, “Farmer” etc.[...]
Introduction
~ 10 minutes From ancient cave paintings to post-modernism, one of the fundamental traits of humanity is our ability to create. Anthropologist Franz Boas once wrote that “there are no peoples without religion or without art” (Boas 634), showing that design exists as a formational factor in all the world’s cultures. Throughout human history, we see examples of art and design as products of our ingenuity (like these clever Inuit[...]