Like any well-intentioned effort, UX for Good has stirred up a few critics. A couple have spoken out publicly; a couple of others have posted critiques under pseudonyms. UXXU 2011 designer Cia Romano takes on one of those critics, point-by-point. “I would offer that this change of perspective is exactly what the ‘idealists’ at UX for [...]
Ed Chen – a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – gives us a look inside one of the teams with only 24 hours to make sense of an impossible challenge. “I felt that quite often, 7 or 8 of the 9 agreed on a direction and wanted to move [...]
Brainstorming session is over. The Cross Cultural Understanding team working on Global Lives is getting down to the nitty gritty. Since yesterday and early this morning, the process started off simplistically by asking: How do they define empathy? If the point of the Global Lives project was to garner empathy from its audience towards the [...]
“People have a problem admitting that they’re really fucking ambitious, that they want to change the world.” Bruce Mau, world-leading visionary, innovator, designer, and author, opened his mouth and the room listened. The cross cultural understanding team has gone back and forth over the last day. They are trying to hone in on which audience [...]
Kevin Coval, a poet and artistic director, came in to spark conversation that the team at Global Lives is having. Global Lives is working on developing a cultural understanding around the world through use of 24 hour films of various demographics. Coval described his experience with warring gang members that he brought together to slam [...]
by Meagan Lopez Last night, conversation got heated in the Global Lives group. The visual and user experience designers are attempting to solve a huge issue – creating awareness in an otherwise shrinking world through filming people’s lives around the world. How does one scale empathy? Is action more important than empathy? The user experience [...]
Cross-Cultural Understanding in partnership with the Global Lives Project Challenge Overview The world is shrinking faster than empathy is growing. While it has become easier for people around the world to connect both on and offline, significant gaps in empathy and compassion remain. Despite all the technology and ability to reach out to one another [...]
David Harris Day job: Executive Director, Global Lives Project Description: David Evan Harris is Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection of art, activism and academic inquiry on the politically charged questions surrounding globalization and social justice. [...]
As UX for Good founders Jeff Leitner and Jason Ulaszek prepared our first event, they carefully considered what physical environment might best stimulate the creativity of ...
One of the social challenges tackled at UX4Good was the reinvention of the American high school. The group that considered the challenge collaborated with education ...
The public image of entrepreneurship is pretty shiny. We imagine smartly dressed young men and women drawing things on white boards, making pitches to venture ...
Like any well-intentioned effort, UX for Good has stirred up a few critics. A couple have spoken out publicly; a couple of others have posted ...
Carlo Garcia is an intriguing guy. In his words: “My name is Carlo and my mission is to give to charity every day for a ...
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