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WorksheetsDesign for Change Thursday 9/24
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
During which stage of the design process do you learn more about your user and your user’s needs and wants?
Spark & Notice
Empathize
Ideate
Research
In the context of the design process and design thinking, who / what is a "user?"
Another name for the designer of a project
The tangible product that a designer makes in response to a design opportunity
The person or group of people who the designer is designing for
An expert on the design topic who provides access to research or background information
How might a designer gather quantitative data?
A multiple choice survey
An open response survey
Empathy interviews
Observations
How might a designer gather qualitative data?
A multiple choice survey
An open response survey
Empathy interviews
Observations
Quantitative data primarly deals with...
words
numbers
Qualitative data primarly deals with...
words
numbers
Which phrase describes when a designer notices and lets go of any biases or judgements that they were holding?
Spark & notice
Beginner's mindset
Empathy work
Qualitative data
Which of these is the best example of a question a designer might ask if they were operating from a beginner's mindset?
What kind of features do you need your new water filter to have?
Do you need a new water filter, or do you need something else?
Why does a designer need to have a beginner's mindset when it comes to data?
So that they don't expect the data to be a certain way and they're prepared to listen to whatever it says
So that they are able to narrow down to a specific design as quickly as possible
So that they already know what trends might tend to emerge from the data and can make accurate predictions
When it comes to the design process and design thinking, what is historical context?
The events that happened earlier and contributed to the situation that you see now
The potential connections between the project topic and Social Studies topics
The basis for the 6th stage in the design process
All of the above
Which best describes the potential risk of a designer not understanding historical context before designing?
The designer may only look at the symptoms of the problem and not the root cause
The designer may create something that's not actually helpful to the user
The designer may make the situation worse than it was before or reinforce the existing problem
All of the above
When you started this project about Flint, how did you build historical context?
Listening to the podcast on environmental racism
Filling in the KWL chart
Looking at qualitative data
