CONTACT INFORMATION
Feel free to contact us regarding any specific questions you might have about
admissions, events, or becoming an affiliate of the program.
Companies interested in information about becoming an affiliate of the Design
Program
Contact Bill Burnett -
wburnett@stanford.edu
Design for change
Center
The Design for Change Center at Stanford is aimed a directing design thinking
towards creating strategic paradigms that bring about rapid change in some the
larger problems facing mankind, such as energy, climate change, water and global
health.
World Schools of D Thinking Big centers are at Stanford
and Potsdam (Berlin) Germany.
Step by Step Introduction Guide to Human
Centered Design
(Create a step by step guide to learning the process to show new people.)
[First Step, become an expert at Design Thinking]
Empathic Centered Design, Human Centered Design (HCD) or Design Thinking Process
is a exciting process that is centered around empathy. It can be see as
the full cycle of empathy as we describe in the definition of empathy as the
"Wheel of Empathy".
Self- Empathy
Mirrored
Empathy
Imaginative
Empathy
Empathic
Creativity, Innovation and Action
Empathy
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test
"Empathy is the centerpiece of a human-centered design process.
The Empathize mode is the work you do to understand people, within the context
of your design challenge. It is your effort to understand the way they do
things and why, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about
world, and what is meaningful to them. "
An Introduction to Design Thinking PROCESS GUIDE
"Empathic design is a user-centered design approach that pays attention to the
user's feelings toward a product.
Empathic
Design - Wikipedia
"As a style of thinking, design thinking is generally considered
the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the
generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit
solutions to the context."–
Design Thinking -
Wikipedia
Watch the video to become familiar with the
process
1. Developing empathic leaders through design: Sami Nerenberg at TEDxIndianapoli Good first video to watch of Human Centered Design by About
Design for America.
"Currently the Director of Operations for Design for America (DFA) and a
lecturer at the Segal Design Institute at
Northwestern University, Sami Nerenberg, a San Francisco native, is passionate
about the intersection of
design education and local/social impact. "
