Interesting lessons learned excerpted from UNICEF’s Stories of Innovation …
This video is a synopsis of the projects, themes and trouble-shooting expressed at the Design Days event on May 10-11 at UNICEF NYHQ.
We have edited down a conversation between UNICEF sponsored rapid design prototypers to profile what they have created in order to respond to and alleviate actual needs of families and children. This video is intended to help make transparent the iterative process that development must undergo in order to create a new device that can respond to global concerns. Also touched on are ways for the organization to make the process of creating prototypes more streamlined, and the best method to take what is developed and to make it open source in order to create a sustainable and beneficial outcome to those that need it.
For Design Days we invited designers and engineers who have worked with us to discuss UNICEF, the design process, and recommendations for future design collaborations.
Lessons Learned:
UNICEF needs methods for iterative and flexible design contracting; we canāt always know what the end result will look like.
UNICEF would benefit from understanding and discussion of the design process before embarking on projects.
We need to work with open-source designers and engineers so that whatever we pay to have produced is public domain.
āResearchā and ādevelopmentā need to happen with end users, in the field.
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