Demarginalizing Design: 3 powerful ways to get started — from ditchthattextbook.com by Dee Lanier
Excerpt:
Get proximate to the pain
- Gather the people that are most affected by the problem.
- Listen for pain. Emotions such as outrage and frustration are insights into the source of the problem.
- Design with them, not for them. Your job is to facilitate the discussion that allows them to come up with their own solutions that affect their community.
From DSC:
You will notice some more postings regarding “Design Thinking” on this Learning Ecosystems blog from time to time. I’m continuing to do this because as we move more toward a reality of lifelong learning, we should probably rethink the entire cradle-to-grave design of our learning ecosystems.