“Human-centered design offers problem solvers of any stripe a chance to design with communities, to deeply understand the people they’re looking to serve, to dream up scores of ideas, and to create innovative new solutions rooted in people’s actual needs.”
If you’ve never explored human-centered design, do yourself a favor and dive in. This design process puts people at the very center and therefore unfolds creative solutions that build-up and create human flourishing and development. The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design is a toolkit, produced by IDEO.org, that guides you through the process step-by-step.
IDEO.org also teams up with Acumen to offer a free online course in the process where you can experiment with the process first-hand in a collaborative setting around a real-world problem. This certainly won’t be the only time you hear about this opportunity at The Impact Guild.