Innovating, with a Human-Centered Design Process
The Design Innovation process can be used to create relevant and socially conscious wearables that can highlight gaps in our thinking. Through a human-centered design process, we seek depth and meaning through the interactions we create. Using insights from listening to people, we can appreciate the benefits of human-centered design practice. This chapter explains some Design Innovation processes we can take and repeat in our own projects and designs. The chapter provides frameworks and guidance on how to conduct research for wearable projects so that humans are respected and considered.
In this chapter, you will explore Design Innovation to work toward creating an informed wearable. We will learn about scoping a project, getting to know the problem, stakeholder mapping, engagement, gaps in the field, human-centered design, co-design (or codesign) and participatory design, sense-making, prototyping, testing, and iterating. That looks...
