Human-Centered Design: A Path to Innovation
Human-centered design is an empathetic approach to problem solving that highly values integrating a user’s lived experience into research, iteration, and innovative solutions.
What is Human-Centered Design (HCD)?
HCD is a process that can be applied to any problem across a variety of sectors. It begins with a focus on the customer’s perspective and needs, which is then weighed against what is feasible and strategic for your organization to implement. This is how you co-create successful solutions.
Why Choose HCD?
Many organizations build a product or solution based on strategic possibilities before taking into consideration the desires of the people they are trying to work with. HCD prioritizes understanding stakeholder’s unique challenges and needs, whether it is survivors, government officials, or partner organizations.
Collaborative Exploration
HCD fosters joint exploration and empathy among stakeholders, ensuring adaptability to dynamic customer needs.
Meaningful Partnerships
Collaboration and iteration establish a foundation for partnerships, fostering innovation and developing genuinely desirable solutions.
Co-Designing with Lived Experience
HCD actively involves individuals with firsthand experience of the problems we want to solve, acknowledging their invaluable insights enhance solutions.
Protection Collaborative Approach
We use HCD to design interventions that resonate with real world perspectives. This ensures solutions are not only desirable, feasible, and strategic, but also deeply resonant with the realities of the people it aims to serve.”
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Using Human-Centered Design to Co-Create Policies With Survivors of Violence: A Field Guide
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