Digital Presentation

Human Centered Design

Objectives

• Develop a smart city system project by using city's infrastructure for intuitive learning

• Create a project which meet the real needs of users
• Aim to aquisition of the skills needed in the 21st century
• Use educational technology products

Human Centered Design

Design

Implementation

Inspiration

Roadmap for success

Align on the goals and define your audience

Brainstorm

Build partnerships

Create a storyboard

Create a project plan

Live prototyping

Build the perfect team

Create a journey map

Interviews

Keep getting feedback and keep iterating

Reference Frameworks

• World Economic Forum (2016). New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning through Technology.
• Characteristics of a smart city outlined by Caragliu et al. (2009).
• IDEO Design kit.
• Most Likely to Succeed (2015).

• Never stop getting feedback. When you are designing something that will be used by others, their opinion is highly significant. Listen to their opinions and consider what you need to keep, improve or change in order to make your project the most successful.

• Use your imagination, be creative, exchange views, refine your ideas. In this phase you are envisioning the result you would like to achieve, so let yourself think freely and listen to the ideas of the other team’s members.

• Work with other partners for the best possible result. For sure your team will be really good but maybe there are people who can contribute more on this project.

• Planning a user's journey, the points that may serve their best, the points that probably make it difficult, the final result. The journey map helps to visualize how the user will operate within the project and how will be their experience.

• Storyboard is a really useful organizational method for managing a project. Visualize your project from start to finish. Write your ideas, organize them, do the planning, and go back to the storyboard every time you start a new task.

• Find out directly from the people concerned by the project what they need or would like to see changed or improved in their city.

• How many people and who will be needed in the project? Teachers, designers, civil engineers, technicians? Who can handle it better? The team is the basis of a project; the right communication, collaboration and co-creativity can have the best possible results.

• Get organized and create the plan.
• Determine issues such as the supplies, skills, possible obstacles, budget.

• Is everything as you have planned? Do you have something to change? When are you going to launch your project? Prepare your final plan and determine the timeline.

• You have the chance to test your project for a period of time. Take advantage of it. Observe what works, what doesn't, what is helpful to your community and what is not, determine the strengths and weaknesses of your planning.

• It’s really significant that the objectives and the audience we address are clear; who are we planning for? If the audience is of different ages, will the project be the same or will it be adapted according to the people concerned? This is the initial but very crucial stage which will help in the planning of the project.