Dr. Sofía Bosch Gómez

Designing Public Services with Communities

In this talk, Sofía Bosch Gómez will present how meaningful community engagement shapes public service design. She will provide practical strategies for turning community insights into actionable improvements through two examples: the development of Mexico City's public taxi app and the design of the AIEP platform in collaboration with Innovate Public Schools.

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Jena Marble

Human-Centered Science Communication: A Visual Approach

This talk explores how human-centered design can make complex scientific research more accessible to the public. By focusing on end users—for example, those who might benefit from research—graphic design students are bridging the gap between academic work and public understanding, helping to reach the communities we aim to serve.

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Carrie James

Wicked Problems in College Composition: Integrating HCD into Writing Pedagogy through a Research-Practice Partnership

This talk highlights the work SCD has done in partnership with Andrew Moss, an affiliate from the Program in Professional Writing to bring HCD and wicked problems to college composition. The talk will highlight both the benefits of bringing writing faculty and researchers together in co-design through a professional learning community and how that collaboration fostered a “reimagining of writing instruction” that centered authentic writing tasks grounded in “wicked” rhetorical situations and real audiences.

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Carrie James

 Embracing Empathy: Describing the Trajectory of Social Empathy Development Model

This talk will share SCD’s partnership with an affiliate from the College of Education and our work to encourage empathy in pre-service teachers as part of a pre-req course they take in minority studies that focuses on identity and difference in education. This work includes the co-design process of an interactive workbook as well as our approach to making sense of students’ empathy development, which led to the Trajectory of Social Empathy Development Model (TSED).

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June Sirichusinwong

Designing My Journey: My undergraduate journey about, with, and through Human-Centered Design

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