Research Mindset
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Overview
The Research Mindset Program is structured around a multi-week series of sessions to uncover the inner workings of a researcher mind. The program is comprised of 4 sessions: Systems Propelled, Problem Solver, Creatively Intelligent, and Critically Minded.
Takeaways
- Learn how to frame a challenge
- Leverage the scientific method through design
- Examine generative and evaluative methods
- Understand how UX researchers practice in industry
- Practice UXing your day-to-day
- Apply a research mindset in your work
Research Mindset Model
Systems Propelled
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Overview
The first session begins with a dialogue centered around design values. What mindsets, values, ethics do modern designers need to solve 21st century challenges? Session attendees will organically explore the range of values-based design principles to take into their product design workflow.
Details
- Dialogue | Discuss design values for the 21st century
- Practice | Explore a values-based design framework
- Implementation | Define your personal design-led manifesto
Problem Solver
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Overview
The first session begins with a dialogue centered around design values. What mindsets, values, ethics do modern designers need to solve 21st century challenges? Session attendees will organically explore the range of values-based design principles to take into their product design workflow.
Details
- Dialogue | Discuss design values for the 21st century
- Practice | Explore a values-based design framework
- Implementation | Define your personal design-led manifesto
Creatively Intelligent
Lead the future › forward
Overview
The first session begins with a dialogue centered around design values. What mindsets, values, ethics do modern designers need to solve 21st century challenges? Session attendees will organically explore the range of values-based design principles to take into their product design workflow.
Details
- Dialogue | Discuss design values for the 21st century
- Practice | Explore a values-based design framework
- Implementation | Define your personal design-led manifesto
Critically Minded
Lead the future › forward
Overview
The first session begins with a dialogue centered around design values. What mindsets, values, ethics do modern designers need to solve 21st century challenges? Session attendees will organically explore the range of values-based design principles to take into their product design workflow.
Details
- Dialogue | Discuss design values for the 21st century
- Practice | Explore a values-based design framework
- Implementation | Define your personal design-led manifesto
“As a new designer entering the industry, you hold the ability to lead through a values-driven design ethos in your practice—to leverage a systems-based design perspective and to fundamentally change the way your organization and team values the complete impact of design.”
Session Lead
Tyler Hartrich
Tyler is a product designer with a mission to create delightful digital experiences that deeply impact people’s lives. With an academic background in urban design, ecological systems design, and an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise, he approaches design problems with a human-centered methodology, focusing on building empathy throughout the design process.
He has worked with organizations spanning solar technology, electric bicycles, organization design, farm-to-fork food systems and climate impact analysis for local governments. Tyler is a current UXDI Immersive instructor at General Assembly in New York City.