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Ramona Sartipi - When Design Thinking Meets Opensource | PyData Global 2023
Join Ramona Sartipi as she explores design thinking and open source, highlighting the importance of empathy and user-centered design.
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Key takeaways:
- Design thinking is a philosophy and set of tools to help solve problems creatively, focusing on human-centered design aspect of problem solving.
- The first step in the design thinking process is empathizing with users, understanding their pain points, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- An as-is scenario map is used to map and document the current user experience, understanding the user’s journey and identifying gaps, problems, and opportunities.
- An empathy map is a tool used to help understand users or customers on a deeper level, representing the user’s thoughts, feelings, and actions.
- Designers have a responsibility to advocate for users and build designs that meet their needs, using design thinking to solve problems.
- The goal of design thinking is to rapidly test and validate ideas, focusing on the user’s perspective and understanding.
- The five steps of the design thinking process are empathy, problem definition, ideation, rapid prototyping, and testing.
- Empathy maps and as-is scenario maps are used to facilitate the design thinking process, ensuring that the focus is on the user’s needs and not just on building a solution.
- Designers must be willing to iterate and refine their solutions based on user feedback and testing.
- The design thinking process is iterative, and solutions may not be perfect on the first try, but rather through repeated testing and refinement.
- The design thinking approach encourages designers to be user-focused and to advocate for users’ needs and voices.
- Open source software can be intimidating for non-technical designers, but it provides an opportunity to design for users and advocate for their needs.