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PDD and Skillsoft, a global leader in corporate learning, today jointly announced that they will be launching an online learning programme on Design Thinking later this year.
Established over 21 years ago, Skillsoft is an educational technology company with more than 140 million users from 160 countries that produces learning management system software for global organisations. 65 percent of Fortune 500 companies engage Skillsoft for their training needs.
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If you would like more details about our new partnership with Skillsoft, please get in touch with us.
In early January we asked people on our mailing list to let us know which topic they’d like see in a Human-Centred Design workshop from the list below.
- Beyond Brainstorming (methods for ideation as well as communicating ideas)
- Rapid Prototyping and Testing
- Ethnographic Research (methods for conducting ethnographic research and translating insights into tangible solutions)
- Participatory Research (methods for actively involving people in the design of concepts/products/services)
- HCD and Business Model Generation – how HCD complements business model development
The results are now in!
The most popular topic, nominated by two-thirds of respondents, was Participatory Design.
We’ll aim for having a Participatory Design workshop (focusing on methods for actively involving people in the design process) by the end of the year. Although, there were several alternative topics that people suggested that caught our eye, including Minimum Viable Product, Stakeholder Engagement with the Public Sector, and Foresight and Anticipation of Future Consumer Needs. So, watch out, we might pick one of them!
As a thanks for their feedback, we entered the respondents into a draw to win a free space on one of our Foundations of HCD for Innovation courses.
Dave Furley, our newest UX consultant and hand model, draws the lucky winner.
And the lucky winner is Dr. Terry Parlett, Head of IP and Commercial Research at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Congratulations!
“Drink some coffee and hammer up some drywall!” That’s what we did on the day before we opened up our pop-up space (three times bigger than last year!) to welcome visitors at the London Design Festival 2013.
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Highlight 1 – Eye-catching window: Curious already?
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Highlight 2 – Interactive Map: Just click!
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Highlight 3 – Wall of culture: How do you think culture impacts design?
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Highlight 4 – Graffiti and culture: A tour around the world!
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Highlight 5 – HCD taster workshop: Where ideas fizzle and pop!
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Highlight 6 – Drinks reception: Coming together for design!
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PDD Highlights at London Design Festival 2013 from PDD on Vimeo.
Interest in Human-Centred Design (HCD) – designing solutions driven by the needs, desires, and contexts of people – has been growing rapidly the past few years, with many clients asking if we can provide training.
PDD is pleased to announce that we’ve partnered with LUMA Institute, the premier HCD educational organisation in the US, to bring Human-Centred Design Workshops to London.
This 2-day workshop will introduce participants to the discipline of Human-Centred Design and cover a wide range of HCD methods, from ethnography, to usability inspection methods, to rapid prototyping. It’s ideal for people who want learn more about HCD, those who want improve their skills, and those who want a clearer idea of how to integrate HCD into their organisation.
Through a dynamic mix of short lectures and hands-on activities you will learn methods that help:
• Provide your teams with a repeatable way to innovate
• Reduce overall development costs
• Promote productive interdisciplinary collaboration
• Tame the complexity of your products, services or policies
The workshop will be facilitated by 2 LUMA Institute instructors and 2 PDD practitioners (Heather McQuaid, Principal of Human Sciences and Interaction Design, and Maeve Keane, Principal of Design Insight). We are limiting the workshop to 16 participants to allow for an optimal balance between small group activities and more individual attention.
For more information visit www.pddinnovation.com
You can register your interest or contact us with any questions at luma@pdd.co.uk or +44 (0)20 8735 1111.
We hope you can join us for an intense, interactive and immersive workshop!
AGENDA
DAY 1
Breakfast & Sign-In: Meet and connect with other participants
Introduction
• Opening Remarks
• Introductory Exercise
• What is Human-Centered Design and Why is it Important?
• Introduction to Workshop Challenge
METHOD SET 1: Putting People First
• Stakeholder Mapping
• Ethnographic Research (Part 1)
• Ethnographic Research (Part 2)
• Rose, Bud, Thorn
• Affinity Clustering
• Review, Reflection & Wrap-Up
DAY 2
Breakfast & Sign-In: Meet and connect with other participants
METHOD SET 2: Usability Inspection
• Heuristic Review
• Affinity Clustering
• Importance/Difficulty Matrix
METHOD SET 3: Envisioning Possibilities
• Creative Matrix
• Visualize-the-Vote
• Storyboarding
METHOD SET 4: Rapid Iteration
• Rough and Ready Prototyping
• Usability Testing
Putting HCD Into Action
• Introduction to Method Cards
• Method Cards Exercises
• Presentations & Group Discussion
• Wrap-Up & Feedback Survey
• Post-Workshop Reception