Description: Eva's thoughts on designing to help others and taking a break from the West
To design well, there’s a road you travel until problems and people intersect. If you don’t get lost or detoured, the signposts you pass are Learn, Define, Model, and Build. Learn the territory. How are things now? Why change them? Define the right problem to solve. Who do you most want to reach and why? Model your idea visually, see if it works, then make it better. Finally, make it real, checking and changing until it’s time to let go. Sometimes, this is a bumpy, fast trip for a few, willing companions wh
A screen from the learning system I’m designing for Quest
But, as everyone warned me, India takes her time. I’m far from where I wanted to be—well into building our learning system for Quest facilitators and students. We have only reached the junction of Define and Model, translating what we know into a product that solves the right problems for the right people. What does a learning system look like when teachers are students, too? How do we make the training enjoyable AND useful to students, while freeing teachers to facilitate learning instead of delivering so