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Welcome to the official blog for RISD's advanced studio, Design for Social Entrepreneurship, Fall 2008. This course aims to cultivate social entrepreneurial designers by investigating the power of products, systems and services to create positive social and environmental change both internationally and domestically.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

A Field Guide from IDEO



We will go over this toolkit Tuesday morning in class.

In collaboration with Gates Foundation and IDE, IDEO created and JUST released a Human Centered Design toolkit. This resource was created to help organizations working with smallholder farmers but can definitely be translated to the work we are doing in class!

For your upcoming interviews, read the Field Guide here. Some sage advice given includes:

During observations, look for:
» Things that prompt shifts in behavior
» Work-arounds and adaptations
» Body language
» Things people care about
» Anything that surprises you
» Anything that questions your assumptions about how the world works
» Anything that you find “irrational”

Thanks IDEO!

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