What is Human-Centered Design?

Human Centered Design (HcD) is all about building a deep empathy with the people you’re designing for; generating tons of ideas; building a bunch of prototypes; sharing what you’ve made with the people you’re designing for; and eventually putting your innovative new solution out in the world.

Human Centred Design is uniquely situated to arrive at solutions that are desirable, feasible, and viable. By starting with humans, their hopes, fears, and needs, we quickly uncover what’s most desirable. But that’s only one lens through which we look at our solutions.

Once we’ve determined a range of solutions that could appeal to the community we’re looking to serve, we then start to hone in on what is technically feasible to actually implement and how to make the solution financially viable.

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