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Post-Human Centered Design: Working Responsibly at Scale

Post-Human Centered Design: Working Responsibly at Scale

https://vimeo.com/419104899 Overview Human-centered design has driven a two decade renaissance in product development, providing a transparent framework that exposes rationale, demystifies process, and provides more reliable outcomes than many other approaches to innovation. The cycle of empathy,...

Developing Empathy through Research: Martha Cotton, A Profile

Developing Empathy through Research: Martha Cotton, A Profile

How do you make 1000 designers better at research while ensuring quality and rigor at the same time? This is the kind of challenge Martha Cotton gets tackle at work everyday as Group Design Director for Research at Fjord—and as a member of the EPIC Board. “If we are going to deeply understand the...

On Empathy, and Not Feeling It

On Empathy, and Not Feeling It

Recently Tracy was asked whether a plan to have everyone in the office go about their day with an “impairment” would be a good way to “practice empathy” and learn more about assistive technology usage. Her response was that while wearing prosthetics demonstrates the shock of becoming impaired, it...