Human-centered Design is about looking at people’s real problems and creating solutions that meet their needs. In this episode, learn the definition and basic steps of human-centered design and how it can help you solve problems more creatively.
What You’ll Learn


* The definition of human-centered design
* Why human-centered design matters and how you can use it in your work/life
* The six-step human-centered design process

Resources

* The Lab, Office of Personnel Management
* Fundamentals of Human-centered Design for federal employees
* Creative Problem Solving Institute
* IDEO.org and IDEO.com

Weekly Challenge
Think about a problem you are trying to solve. Who are the stakeholders involved? Who do you need to talk with to gain a deeper understanding of the actual problem.
Transcript
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Transcript for Episode #098: The Power of Human-centered Design
Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative podcast Episode 98. Today’s episode is about the power of human-centered design. I am going to explain what human-centered design is and talk a little bit about how you might be able to use it in your work.
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Today, I want to talk about human-centered design and what it is, why it matters. I recently, a couple of weeks ago, taught a three-day course on human-centered design at the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, New York. It is an annual conference that is all about creativity. A big part of the conference is about Creative Problem Solving, which I have talked many, many times on this podcast about Creative Problem Solving. If you are not familiar with that, listen to episodes 03 through 08 and you will get a nice in-depth understanding of Creative Problem Solving.
This year, I was invited to teach human-centered design with two colleagues of mine who work with the Lab that is part of the office of Personnel Management with the US Federal government. I work there as well, in fact, I am teaching a course later this month in July with them, The Foundations of Human-centered Design, so if you are interested, it is open to the public. It actually happens every month in Washington, D.C.
After teaching this course with them, I thought this would be a great podcast episode. In Episode 73 I talked a little bit about the difference between Creative Problem Solving,