User-Centered Design
Length: 3-5 Weeks
Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Areas: Engineering, STEM
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- Length: 3-5 Weeks
- Grade Level: 9-12
- Subject Areas: Engineering, STEM
- BLOSSOMS Lesson Video
- Video Teacher Guide
- Project Calendar
- Summative Assessments
- Project-Based Learning Tools
- Teacher Questions on PBL
- Common Student Concerns During PBL
Key Concepts & Knowledge
Overview
What problems exist in my community? How can we address these problems within the community?
Students become designers in this multi-week User Experience project. Students learn to interview, collect data, extract information effectively, brainstorm, create and test their ideas based off MIT’s D-Lab User-Centered Design process.
Sequence of Project Activities
- Watch the BLOSSOMS video lesson User-Centered Design: Creating Better Solutions for Global Challenges
- Teams are created through through deliberate team-building strategies
- Identify Cluster patterns from interview information gathering techniques
- Cluster patterns in their interview information
- Formulate the question of the root problem instead of symptom-based questions
- Identify sources of problem
- Brainstorm solutions
- Methodically choose best solution
- Create process or prototype
- Test process or prototype
- Finalize process or prototype with presentation