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Human Centred Design
A pilot two-day intensive course on human centred design, with a focus on product and experience design.
All great design begins with an appreciation of what the user aspires to achieve. Excellent design has a language all of its own that clearly communicates and engages the customer effortlessly, often bringing unforeseen benefit along the way. Human centred design puts a spotlight onto the user experience, unravelling their motivations and aspirations to create intuitive solutions.
This course aims to demystify some of the tools and techniques required to create truly impactful designs, be they products or experiences. If you want to develop your skills in connecting with users and potential customers, then this two day course will be of interest to you. Through hands-on activities and live-projects, we will explore how to be more creative, understand context and empathize with users to identify new opportunities.
Over two days the Design Museum will be piloting this new course within its professional development programme, in partnership with the Warwick Manufacturing Group.
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For more information or to book a place please email Bernard Hay, Producer of Adult Learning, on bernard.hay@designmuseum.org
Speakers
Mairi Macintyre is Principal Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick with a focus on Design; Product Service and Experience. Her IATL fellowship was awarded to develop ‘playful’ learning materials for higher education. Her passion for the learning process has gained her international recognition for pedagogical approaches to enhance creativity.
Yesim Kunter is a play expert and a futurist. She has developed ‘PlaytoInnovate® Workshops’ in training organizations with diverse backgrounds from kids to professionals for leveraging Creative Thinking. Previous to her consultancy she had worked for Toys R Us, Lego and Hasbro as a play futurist.
Jennie Murray is a product designer with a background in creative consultancy. Having worked with in-house new product development teams and within London based branding agencies, Jennie brings diverse experience from packaging and graphic design through to the development of medical and consumer products.
Helen Charman is Director of Learning and Research at the Design Museum. Helen is the author of books, chapters, papers and articles on the role of design in museum education and sits on the advisory board for the Creative Education Academies Trust and the Cultural Learning Alliance. She is a trustee of Engage, the national association for gallery education.
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