Designing for Civic Solutions Workshop
Date: Sat, April 23, 2016
Time: 10:00 am – 4:45 pm
Location: Little Walnut Creek Branch, Austin Public Library - 835 West Rundberg Lane, Austin, TX 78758 (map)
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Designing for Civic Solutions is a one-day workshop and collaboration between Open Austin and Austin Center for Design (AC4D) alumni to teach community members how to use a human-centered design process to focus on social impact.
Workshop attendees will engage in ethnographic research, synthesis, and rapid ideation centered on the theme of “mobility in Austin”. They will be empowered to use these skills to research, design, and prototype other civic tech and social good projects important to them and their surrounding communities. To learn this process they will form small groups focusing on different aspects of mobility in Austin around the Rundberg neighborhood.
The event will be free and open to the public. No design or development skills are necessary to attend this workshop.
Goals for this workshop
Upon completion of the workshop, Participants will learn how to:
- Contribute their research and ideas to the existing pressing issue of mobility in Austin
- Conduct human-centered research around the theme of mobility
- Translate their research into meaningful insights
- Practice ideation methods based on their insights from the field
- Use storyboarding as a way to prototype ideas
- Apply this process and these skills to future projects
Workshop Facilitators
Eric Boggs is an interaction designer at Blackboard in Austin, TX, focused on designing mobile applications for students. He believes in the power of design to help address large scale social issues, and has completed a variety of research projects on student loan debt, family caregiving, and healthy shopping to inform product and service innovation. Eric graduated from the Austin Center for Design in 2013.
Bhavini Patel is a freelance UX Experience Researcher & Interaction Designer. Bhavini has worked in collaboration with Projekt202, Chaotic Moon Studios, Wondros, Zogotech and Saatchi and Saatchi. She is a graduate of Austin Center for Design and splits her time between Los Angeles and Austin.
Laura Galos is a design researcher at IBM in Austin, Texas. Her past projects include research in aging and family dynamics, service design, and ad technology. She is a 2015 graduate of Austin Center for Design with certification in Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship.
James Lewis is a curious, passionate interaction designer who likes to embrace the ambiguity of complex problems, creating clear solutions for both the end user and client. He previously worked to change hearts and minds in the political advocacy and non profit arenas. Now he works as a user experience designer at IBM designing products for developers who work with big data.
Samara Watkiss arrived at interaction design as a profession and calling by pursuing the most inspiring aspects of her work as a set designer, pedal-powered machine builder, graphic designer and refugee-liaison and asking how they all connected. After several years of working as an Interaction in Boston, she moved to Austin, TX to complete a degree in Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship at the Austin Center for Design. She now leads a human-centered design initiative for a local cyber security company.
This event is conducted under the Open Austin Code of Conduct
http://www.open-austin.org/about/code-of-conduct
This event is made possible by generous donations from:
Presented by
Open Austin in Collaboration with Austin Center for Design Alumni