Human Centered Design - Toolkit
IDEO (Firm)
Summary
Human Centered Design (HCD) offers a powerful framework for innovation that places people’s needs, behaviors, and experiences at the core of problem-solving. Developed and popularized by IDEO, this approach emphasizes empathy, iterative prototyping, and collaboration to create solutions that are both effective and meaningful. The Human Centered Design Toolkit distills these principles into practical methods, enabling teams across disciplines to craft products, services, and systems that resonate deeply with users.
- Empathy is foundational: Understanding users’ emotions, motivations, and contexts is the starting point for identifying real problems.
- Divergent and convergent thinking: The design process alternates...
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