Flaws of Averages

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<p><strong>Rhonda L. Jordan </strong>is a Ph.D. student in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT and is interested in sustainable energy development in developing economies.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Daniel J. Livengood</strong> is a Ph.D. student in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT and is interested in how the evolution of the electric grid will incorporate responsive electricity demand to help manage the grid most efficiently, especially as weather-dependent sources of electricity supply (such as wind

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Overview

What problems exist in my community? How can we address these problems within the community? - Text from User-Centered Design

Students become designers in this multi-week User Experience project. Students learn to interview, collect data, extract information effectively, brainstorm, create and test their ideas based off MIT’s D-Lab User-Centered Design process. 

Sequence of Project Activities - Text from User-Centered Design

  • Watch the BLOSSOMS video lesson User-Centered Design: Creating Better Solutions for Global Challenges
  • Teams are created through through deliberate team-building strategies
  • Identify Cluster patterns from interview information gathering techniques
  • Cluster patterns in their interview information
  • Formulate the question of the root problem instead of symptom-based questions
  • Identify sources of problem
  • Brainstorm solutions
  • Methodically choose best solution
  • Create process or prototype
  • Test process or prototype 
  • Finalize process or prototype with presentation