Week 4 Resources
Human-Centered Design with the LUMA Institute
At LUMA, they believe any individual, team and organization has the potential to innovate, but may not know how. So they created the LUMA System of Innovation as an flexible, easy-to-learn and repeatable framework of Human-Centered Design that anyone can learn to be more innovative and make things better.
IDEO | The Deep Dive
10 Models for Design Thinking
Journal Entry 3 & 4 Resources
Microsoft Five Phases of Inclusive Design
How Do You Achieve Focus? |
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Interruptions are inevitable, while some are helpful alerts and others distract during inopportune moments. How do we design a system that empathizes with its users and adjusts the way it communicates? If you want to start designing smarter, more empathetic systems, download our booklet for more questions to guide your thinking: aka.ms/RespectingFocus
Be a Mr. Jenson
Unboxing the New XBOX Adaptive Controller
Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open packaging, particularly some heat-sealed plastic blister packs and clamshells. People can be injured while opening difficult packaging: cutting tools pose a sharp hazard to the person opening the package, as well as its contents. Easy-opening systems are available to improve package-opening convenience.
Twist ties that bedevil. Thick plastic requiring scissors to break open. Tape that gets wrapped around fingers. Those cursed strips known as zip ties.Packaging can be annoying for any consumer (see: wrap rage). But for people with disabilities, it often creates yet another challenge in a world riddled with them, an unnecessary obstacle that leads to frustration and a delay getting to the object inside.
Microsoft XBOX | Game Your Way
The Blind Visionary
Ralph Teetor was an engineer and an all-around amazing guy. He lost his vision as a child, but that didn’t slow him down. What did get in his way, however, was his lawyer’s driving. He’d break, then quickly accelerate-all in the name of obeying a conservation-minded, World War II era, 35-mph speed limit.
