Jocelyn Wyatt- Design in the Developing World

A great recent post from IDEO's Jocelyn Wyatt discusses the approaches to designing for development, including systemic thinking and business approaches. Great to see in what ways our projects here at DeSE are resonating with the greater field!

Jocelyn Wyatt leads the Design for Social Impact initiative at IDEO . Prior to IDEO, Jocelyn worked as an Acumen Fund fellow in Kenya and served as Interim Country Director for VisionSpring in India. Jocelyn has an MBA from Thunderbird and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College. She blogs (periodically) on www.jocelynwyatt.com.

"Fully admitting my bias here, I did think the Design in the Developing World panel was an especially interesting conversation between a top-notch set of designers and practitioners. Caroline Balerin launched the panel with the question "What would it look like to design for the other 90%?" I fully expected the panelists, who have traditionally designed products, to respond with something about appropriately designed technologies. I was pleasantly surprised to hear each of them respond with the need to design not only the products, but the systems around them."

Read the full article on nextbillion.net here. 

D4D- FINAL Deliverables

Tuesday, October 21st = final presentation for the Design for Development exercises. 

Each student will have 20-30 minutes for their critique including a 10-15 minute Power Point presentation and 10-15 minutes of feedback. 

In your Power Point Presentation, it is suggested you  include the following information, not in this particular order: 

-Brief introduction to your chosen country and region

-Who your target market is (story board)

-What specific design opportunity you are targeting- clearly stating your "Problem Statement."

- Research and references to back up the context of your project.  

-Mission Statement

-Your Process:

Inspirational Art Piece (if applicable)

Theme board (if applicable)

Mind Map (if applicable)

Design Sketches/Prototypes/Sketch Models

-Final Design 

If it's a product- how does it fit into a larger system and map this out with a system overview.

If it's a system- represent the entirety while also focusing in on a particular component with more refined detail. 

-What the project might look like in the future, who are your potential partners and etc. 

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You determine the order of these deliverable. The important thing is to tell the story of your project, and include only relevant information that conveys your point- from the larger system to the micro scale, lead us through your thinking, your research to backup your claims, and your final conclusions. 

You region- what the problem is- how you plan to address the problem - and what your proposed solution is.