Designing with Empathy Lesson

Designing with Empathy Independent Lesson

You will need notebook and canvas

Agenda for today's lesson

What to cover/ assignments

Agenda:
Warm up
Activity guide
Practice (separate quizizz lesson)
Assignments:
Missing work in class- we had a lot of work these past few days
Practice quizizz- separate from this

The Problem Solving Process

We already know the 4 steps to the problem solving process: Define, Prepare, try, and reflect. We will know add empathize. Answer the next question
Before that though, draw the problem solving process diagram in your notes and in the middle, throughout the whole diagram, put empathize

Open Ended

What does it mean to empathize? Where else have you heard this term before?

Key Vocabulary/ Message

• Empathy - In design, paying attention to a user's feelings and

needs when designing a product
User- someone who uses an object, including software and hardware
This unit we are going to start thinking a lot more about designing for other people. This is still largely a problem solving process, but we will now need to think a lot more closely about the needs of our users. In other words, empathy will be an important theme as we learn more about design.

Question of the Day: How can we choose products based on the needs of a user?

Determining the User

Find "Determining the user activity guide" and complete that. Move on when finished

Open Ended

• Which users were the easiest to find matches for?

• Which users were the hardest to find matches for?

Open Ended

Pick one or two of the objects you analyzed today. What could you change to make this object more usable for you?

Reminder: HW

Assignments:
Missing work
Practice designing with empathy (separate quizizz), do it now