In the past six months, our perspectives on our daily lives have shifted considerably — affecting how we make choices about where we live, how we work, and what we consume.

In this webinar with Adam Royalty, designer-in-residence at Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design, learn about a powerful tool called human-centered design that helps us better understand how people make decisions.

From this 30-minute webinar, you will walk away with:
- A better understanding of how the needs of consumers drive their choices
- Two actionable frameworks that uncover and synthesize key customer needs
- Inspiration to drive customer-focused innovation in your organization

To learn more from Adam Royalty, visit:
www8.gsb.columbia.edu/execed/program-pages/details/2388/DT?sourceid=youtube

Check out this interview with Richland Library's Executive Director Melanie Huggins to learn what inspired her to create Do Good Columbia and how human-centered design can help shape communities.

As IDEO.org’s website states, “the social sector needs a design organization that is willing to do things differently.” At the forefront of innovation, IDEO.org creates impact in the lives of low-income communities around the world through designing, teaching, and inspiring localized solutions to global systemic challenges. Known for their human-centered design, Ben Chase will go into what it takes to deliver success at IDEO.org and the innovations they are seeing and implementing around the world to address some of today’s most pressing issues.

Featuring Ben Chase, managing director, IDEO.org, and Joe Heritage, ’17SIPA, design lead, Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design.

In this complimentary webinar, Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio Founder Adam Royalty shares some of the core principles behind human-centered design and how leaders can harness these to drive innovation in their organizations.

During this 30-minute webinar, you’ll learn:

- How organizations can empathize with customers
- How to structure rapid experimentation
- Strategies for making a team more human centered

To learn more about Design Thinking, visit:
www8.gsb.columbia.edu/execed/program-pages/details/2388/DT?sourceid=youtube

Promotion video made as the final project for the Human Centered Design course at Columbia University

Recently, there’s been increased interest in the use of design-thinking within K-12 education. But too often, this theory fails to acknowledge the role of institutional bias and individual blind spots. During this session, DC Public Schools’ Design Lab and Equity Strategy & Programming Team will share hands-on strategies, practices, and lessons learned with other equity-minded practitioners interested in making their human-centered design work more inclusive and equitable.

Session Learning Outcomes:
Understand how EquityxDesign enhances traditional design by acknowledging the importance of designer and user identities – including race, class, and gender identities.
Use an equity lens to reflect on current strengths and growth areas within your classroom, school, or organization to identify areas to apply EquityxDesign practices.
Practice various equity-focused empathy tools to build a deeper understanding of yourself and your user.

Presenters:
Constance Parham, Manager, School Design and Innovation, DC Public Schools Design Lab
Lizz Rene, Manager, Equity Strategy and Programming, DC Public Schools Design Lab

Presentations and discussion of community-based design and public service architecture with Sharon Davis '06 M.Arch and Louise Braverman in conversation with Dean Amale Andraos.

Organized by Columbia GSAPP.

Anchored by a human-centered, inclusive approach and design-thinking methodologies, engineering study at Boston College is bolstered by a global viewpoint, ethical underpinnings, and distinctive capstone projects that address real-world challenges.

Learn more by visiting bc.edu/engineering and more about BC's inaugural first class: on.bc.edu/EngineeringBetterWorld

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In unprecedented, volatile times, rapid responses and innovative approaches are essential. At edUcate, we believe that product design should be humane, building on deep emotional insights to understand how to best leverage technology; to answer customer needs in the simplest possible form.

We cooperate with Columbia Business School to design corporate products and services that not only provide great experiences but touch the very core of human problems.
In a 5-day Design Sprint, 40 engineers, top-tier consultants and entrepreneurs from across the globe work in teams to solve a client challenge. Teams are supported by Columbia’s Design Studio and marketing experts, as well as edUcate consultants and client stakeholders. The Design Sprint is an intensive, practical approach to rapidly solve problems and deliver tangible solutions.
The outcome:
- 30+ interviews
- More than 300 ideas
- 10 tangible, digital prototypes validated
In just under a week!
We truly believe in the power of human-centered design for solving corporate challenges. Submit your challenge now at [email protected]

Carol Righi talks about 1904labs approach to including human centered design in its agile development process.

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This talk with Prof. Ben Shneiderman is the first event in a series of online talks by the Dyson School of Design Engineering. The slides accompanying this talk can be downloaded here:
drive.google.com/file/d/11qTglM2_OwaF3VdoqowSeHVmCYxBQfSi/view?usp=sharing

Human-Centered AI (HCAI) represents a fresh way of thinking. In the past, researchers and developers focused on building AI algorithms and systems, stressing the autonomy, correctness, and efficiency of machines rather than human control through user interfaces. In contrast, HCAI puts the human users at the center of design thinking, emphasizing user experience design. Researchers and developers for HCAI systems stress measuring human performance and satisfaction, valuing customer and consumer needs, and ensuring meaningful human control. Achieving HCAI will increase human performance, while supporting human self-efficacy, creativity, and responsibility and respecting human values, rights, and dignity.

The next step is to bridge the gap between widely discussed ethical principles of HCAI and practical steps for effective governance. I propose 15 recommendations at four levels of governance: team, organization, industry, and government. The recommendations are intended to increase the reliability, safety, and trustworthiness of HCAI systems: (1) reliable systems based on sound software engineering practices, (2) safety culture through business management strategies, and (3) trustworthy certification by independent oversight and government interventions when needed. Further information at: hcil.umd.edu/human-centered-ai

Human-Centred Design and Innovation, Columbia University

Kartikeya Bector
Vittorio Bottoli
Aravind Madhamsetty
Jin Guan

Join a frog Designer for an introduction to what Human Centered Design is, how it works in practice and explore case studies to spark conversation about how it can add value to your work, the work of your grantees and the pressing social issues you care about. frog works with non-profits, social change organizations and companies around the world. They have designed life changing tools and platforms. Learn more about frog here.

More about the Presenter:
Lilian Tse, Senior Program Manager, Global Social Impact Lead

Lilian is the Global Program Manager for frog’s Social Impact Practice and one of the founders of the frog London studio. Lilian’s main focus is leading projects that involve design research as a core component in emerging and developed markets. She has travelled extensively on projects across Asia (e.g., China, Laos, Sri Lanka) and Africa (e.g., Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya).

Lilian is passionate about cross-sector collaboration and has extensive experience leading projects that require alignment from a range of stakeholders on topics that include finance, agriculture, and health.

Prior to frog, Lilian worked as a consultant at McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board (CEB).

Lilian received her BA from Brown University, MBA at MIT Sloan, and Master of Public Administration from Columbia University.

Virgil Abloh (Rockford, IL 1980) is an architect, engineer, creative director, and designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison, he completed a Master´s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It was here that he learned not only about design principles but also about the concept of collaborative working. He studied a curriculum devised by Mies van der Rohe on a campus van der Rohe had designed. After completing his degree, Abloh soon took on the role as a creative director for Kanye West and for West´s creative think tank “Donda“.

Throughout Virgil Abloh's career, he has received numerous awards in the realms of art and design. Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh™ began in 2012 as an art project titled PYREX VISION. In 2013, Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh™ was introduced as a seasonal men's and women's fashion brand, which has grown to include the production of furniture designed by Abloh. In 2015, Off-White™ was one of eight finalists for the LVMH Prize in Paris. In 2016, he was inducted into the BOF 500 “The People Shaping The Global Fashion Industry” List. In the same year, he was one of five nominees for the category of International Urban Luxury Brand at The British Fashion Awards. In 2017, Abloh was one of five nominees for the category of Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at The CFDA Awards. Additionally, in 2017, Abloh was selected as a special guest to show his Spring Summer 2018 Men's OFF-WHITE c/o VIRGIL ABLOH™ Collection in Florence, Italy during Pitti Immagine Uomo 92. In 2019, Abloh's work will be the subject of a focused retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where he will show new work alongside previously unseen works from his past.

Mathematica’s Ben Fischer discusses using human centered design to support public program improvement and stakeholder engagement.

The University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering 2021 Distinguished Speaker Series welcomed Professor Helen Nissenbaum for the talk, "Contextual Integrity: Breaking the Grip of Public-Private Distinction for Meaningful Privacy."

Privacy is one of the most urgent issues facing information technology and digital media. While many discussions about privacy have focused on whether or not personal information should be shared, we also need to talk about what constitutes appropriate and proper sharing of information. Information should be distributed and protected according the norms that govern different social contexts such as the workplace, schools, or among family and friends. Just as people constantly negotiate appropriateness while living and working in different social contexts our information systems also need to function with regard to social norms and values.

In this talk, Professor Nissenbaum discusses appropriateness, or integrity, in regards to information privacy and critiques notions of a public/private dichotomy when it comes to thinking about privacy.

Lulu is the founder of the Barnard/Columbia Design for America Studio, a network of interdisciplinary student teams and community members using design for local and social impact.

Junto con Camille Oudinot y Stefi Speranza, expertas Service y Startegic Designers, conversamos sobre por qué tenemos que dejar de hablar sobre Design Thinking, y empezar a hablar más sobre el Human Centered Design. Si te interesa el Diseño y querés escuchar sobre algunos dolores comunes al implementarlo, ¡esta es tu charla!

Let's Talk About Skills, Baby Season 2 Episode 7. How can we make learning fun? Whether you are in a formal school setting, or in an office, lifelong learning is core to success, and that’s why it should be fun! The better curriculum and teachers can be at centering individual human experience in their design, the better learning individuals will be able to do.

This week, Kelly is joined by Erin Huizenga, a teacher, designer, and co-owner/studio director at DeskLight. She designs to help people learn. Erin believes listening well is a key skill not only to design, but for business in general.