Human Centered Design: Empathizing with Users

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The earner has achieved a fundamental understanding of a design process that focuses on user needs. The earner can demonstrate techniques to build empathy for users of all abilities.

Type Learning
Level Foundational

Additional Details

Skills

Active Listening
Design
Empathy
Human-Centered Design
Inclusive Design
Invisible Bias
Self-Awareness

Earning Criteria

Evaluate designs to determine usability/simplicity, need, uniqueness, and practicality.
Describe the stages of the human-centered design process. Analyze iterations of designed objects and the relationship between iteration and efficacy.
Analyze and discuss the social impact of design. Apply knowledge of how empathy - vs. sympathy - is critical to design process.
Describe the importance of inclusivity in digital design, including designing for people with different abilities.
Examine their own invisible biases to become a self-aware and empathetic designer.