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5 years ago Session Plan
Summary
We will lead a design jam where participants create low-fidelity prototypes in response to the unique context of “the last billion”—people with little or no access to stable, reliable internet or smartphones. After explaining quickly how design jams work, we’ll introduce the constraints for the participants’ designs with 2 personas that we’ve developed from field research and ongoing partnerships with small NGOs in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania who work on HIV/AIDS prevention for adolescent girls and young women.
The designs will respond to the prompt: How might we enable adolescent girls and young women with little access to technology to raise their voices so that those responsible for serving them can better respond to their needs?
Space setup
Groups of 2-5 sitting around scattered cluster of tables. Tables have markers, big paper, printer paper, post-its, tape, popsicle sticks, and any other kind of craft supplies we can find.
Facilitator will have a some kind of chart paper or whiteboard to draw on that everyone can see.
Time
4:30pm to 6:00pm on Saturday October 27th
Schedule
As participants arrive -> Break into small groups Quick informal poll -> consider themselves designers? How many people like to draw? Warmup exercise -> Fold paper into 8, draw a quick comic that shows what brought you here today -> 5 mins. Share with the others in your group -> 5 mins. Alt Warmup exercise -> Fold paper into 8, without taking your pencil off the paper, show what brought you here today -> 5 mins. Share with the others in your group -> 5 mins.
- Introduce the facilitators and Ushahidi- 5 min
- Introduce context - DREAMS and AGYWs - 5 mins
- Introduce very high-level workshop and human centred design methodology - 5 mins
- Persona 1 and questions- 5 mins
- Persona 2 and questions- 5 mins
- First activity: crazy 8s
- explain activity - 5 mins
- warmup round - what context. - 4 mins
- first real round - 5 mins
- second real round - 5 mins
- refinement - 5 mins
- voting - 5 mins
- Storyboarding - 15 mins
- Share back - 2 mins per group
- Discussion - 10 mins
- Feedback
- How did you feel about the overall experience?
- question 2
- question 3
- How did you feel about the overall experience?
Total time
Roughly 90 mins.
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[ Session Name ] Prototypes for the “last billion”: a design jam on services for adolescent girls and young women in East Africa [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Openness
[ Submitter's Name ] Justin Scherer [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Ushahidi [ Submitter's GitHub ] justinscherer
[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Monica Nthiga [ Other Facilitator 1's GitHub ] Nthiga
[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Angela Oduor Lungati [ Other Facilitator 2's GitHub ] aoduor
What will happen in your session?
We will lead a design jam where participants create low-fidelity prototypes in response to the unique context of “the last billion”—people with little or no access to stable, reliable internet or smartphones. After explaining quickly how design jams work, we’ll introduce the constraints for the participants’ designs with 2 personas that we’ve developed from field research and ongoing partnerships with small NGOs in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania who work on HIV/AIDS prevention for adolescent girls and young women. The designs will respond to the prompt: How might we enable adolescent girls and young women with little access to technology to raise their voices so that those responsible for serving them can better respond to their needs?
What is the goal or outcome of your session?
Participants will spend the session developing empathy and understanding for the unique constraints facing specific marginalized groups with little access to technology—folks whom most technology companies completely neglect. They’ll also get a taste of how the unique methods of human-centred design can create inclusive solutions to for groups with different levels of access to technology. The artefacts of the session will be sketches and low-fidelity prototypes.
Time needed
90 mins