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Human Centered Design toolkit

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Human centered design Overview of Toolkit: IDEO partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need.

Thoughts on Toolkit: Some pretty good stuff here, especially if you are looking to work with tribal communities in developing countries.  Limited for transferable content to more developed countries issues.

Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. Human-Centered Design can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for organizations like yours that work with people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Human-Centered Design (HCD) will help you hear people’s needs in new ways, create innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind.

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