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If you have ever thought about why one or another thing is design in this or other why, if you have had a thought that the chair your sitting on or a cup your drinking coffee from could be made differently to suit your needs better, then the user-centered design workshop is just for you.
Saturday afternoon will start with a presentation called "Why users studies can make better products?". This information will let you understand what is user-centered design and how things are design in different ways according to who will use it. Afterwards it will be followed by a workshop and work in groups where development of an object will happen.
Schedule:
16:00
Presentation: What is a user-centered designer?
Presentation of projects (A walker for young people why handicap on lower limbs and an other project fro elderly)
Why users studies make the difference on these projects?
Cake break (15 min)
17:15
Workshop : (30min-1h)
Presentation of the workshop
Example of a project and the design process
Work in groups - 4 people per group
Each group will have one object on the table and will need to improve it for a specific target group (blind, handicap of the lower libs, elderly..). Afterwards groups will make presentations about the improved object.
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Hi, interesting... but who will be the presenter and the workshop facilitator..? :)
It was Elodie Lepaludier - but unfortunately the event has been cancelled. A new date might be found in 2013, stay tuned.