Designing with Empathy

Mark BarnettDon Davis

Mariah Noelle

Workshop Presenters

San Antonio Makerspace

San Antonio Makerspace

Designing with Empathy

Empathy Experiment

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Conductive

MaKey MaKey

Empathy Experiment

• How does empathy affect your experience?

Define the Problem• Design Challenge:

– Design a game controller that is best suited for the physical hand impairment of your choice

Explore Possible Solutions

• Brainstorm– Discuss possible solutions

• Ideate– Draw quick sketches

• Collaborate– Decide on a possible solution

Prototype

Test

Industry Solutions

Debrief

Empathize

Define

Ideate

Prototype

Test

Student Designs

Student Designs

Student Designs

Student Designs

Your Turn

• Develop an Empathy Project

• MaKey MaKey

• Design Thinking Process

Share

• @gnu_don

• @Maker_Mark

• @MariahNoelle

• #awesome

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