Disabled Hands: Target Prescription Bottles: Recommended for Those With Disabled Hands. CollectiveActionToolkit FrogDesign. INDEX:2007. The Designer Fund. Brain Drain Collective | Brain Drain is a collective of diverse minds dedicated to enhancing the vitality of cities and turning shared experience into shared initiative through creative projects. Using Your UX-pertise to Save the World: Pro Bono Work That Also Benefits YouUser Experience Magazine. Figure 1. A designer and researcher pair up and propose website usability improvements to a nonprofit representative during our World Usability Day event. There are companies and organizations in our community that are struggling to improve life beyond the commercial sector.
Most of them lack the expertise or the resources to improve their messaging or the usability of their products. Critical communication is lost in translation between the lines of their cluttered website. Their broken billing workflow is holding significant revenue hostage. A poorly designed engagement portal is deterring potential donors. Here is the story of how I coupled my love for helping others with my passion for user experience to create a meaningful and lasting impact on both the nonprofit community and my career. Rite of Passage into the World of UX Pro Bono My own journey of UX enlightenment began with a seemingly simple conversation with my career coach. But I wanted to take it a step further. Figure 2. HCD Connect. PEOPLE. Start Something That Matters I A Book by Blake Mycoskie. Vol 5, Issue 4 | Winter 2009 (Special Issue: HCI4D) About Us. IDEO has been working in the social sector for more than ten years. Recently, it became clear that launching a nonprofit organization focused solely on social innovation would allow IDEO to make an even bigger impact on global poverty.
Enter, IDEO.org! Through Human-Centered Design projects, we're bringing stability, hope, and dignity to communities around the world that are wrestling with poverty. Along the way, we’re sharing what we learn and accomplish with everyone—so we’re all learning together. And through the IDEO.org Fellowship Program, we’re fostering a community of future leaders with expertise in design thinking, then letting them loose on the world.
To establish IDEO.org, IDEO provided substantial seed funding. Human-Centered Design for Development (HCD4D): Workshop at U(X)PA2012. Archeworks - Chicago's Multidisciplinary Design Educator.