Designing with Empathy can be used in formal and informal learning environments by combining Scratch and MaKey MaKey to build a game controller for a person with a physical impairment.

1. Designing with Empathy
Mark Barnett
Don Davis
Mariah Noelle

2. Workshop Presenters

3. San Antonio Makerspace

4. San Antonio Makerspace

5. Designing with Empathy

6. Empathy Experiment

7. Anything
Conductive
Anything
Conductive
MaKey MaKey

8. Empathy Experiment
• How does empathy affect your
experience?

9. Define the Problem
• Design Challenge:
– Design a game controller that is best
suited for the physical hand impairment
of your choice

10. Explore Possible Solutions
• Brainstorm
– Discuss possible solutions
• Ideate
– Draw quick sketches
• Collaborate
– Decide on a possible solution

11. Prototype

12. Test

13. Industry Solutions

14. Debrief

15. Empathize

16. Define

17. Ideate

18. Prototype

19. Test

20. Student Designs

21. Student Designs

22. Student Designs

23. Student Designs

24. Your Turn
• Develop an
Empathy Project
• MaKey MaKey
• Design Thinking
Process

25. Share

26. • @gnu_don
• @Maker_Mark
• @MariahNoelle
• #awesome
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