Design-Thinking for Applications Development and Knowledge Management
Legal Tech Meets Human-Centered Design
Lee-Sean Huang and V. Mary Abraham
August 2016
Lee-Sean HuangCofounder/Creative Director at Foossa. I'm a service designer, futurist, and educator.
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Lee-Sean Huang
foossa.com
@leesean
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Lee-Sean Huang is a New York City-based designer,
innovation strategist, and educator. He is the co-founder
of Foossa, a community-centered design consultancy
and an affiliated faculty member at the School of Visual
Arts, New York University, and the Parsons School of
Design.
His recent work includes: consulting with UN agencies
to develop new online tools for facilitating diplomacy
and economic development; helping an international
labor union think through the future of organizing in the
digital age; collaborating with the European Commission
to research and design new interfaces for large-scale
civic debate, and co-creating new experiences at the
Kigali Genocide Memorial with Rwandan genocide
survivors. He has also taught human centered design
and innovation to executives at major telecom and
pharmaceutical companies.
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V. Mary Abraham
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V. Mary Abraham a law firm consultant, strategic
facilitator, and knowledge management thought leader.
She is also a co-founder of Broadli Inc., which created
the Broadli generosity app and provides smarter
networking training.
Active in the legal industry since 1991, she practiced
corporate law at a top-tier international firm and helped
lead its knowledge management efforts. Since 2013 she
has been a member of the faculty of Columbia
University’s Master of Science in Information and
Knowledge Strategy program where she teaches
collaboration, facilitation, networks, innovation and
knowledge sharing.
Her report, Optimizing Law Firm Support Functions, was
published by the Ark Group in 2014. It provides
guidance to law firm executives on how to transform
administrative staff from cost centers to strategic
partners of the firm.
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1. Interviewing for insight
2. Prototyping to invite improvement
3. Reframing to trigger new solutions
One hour,
not one lifetime
6. Clarifying Misunderstandings about
Design
Design is not just about creating beauty.
Design is not all about ideas.
Design is not irrational.
Design is not mysterious.
Not all design is good design.
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1. Interviewing for insight
2. Prototyping to invite improvement
3. Reframing to trigger new solutions
One hour,
not one lifetime
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1. Ask: Who is REALLY served by this design?
2. Act: Try this at home
3. Act: d.school course
Advice for the
Road:
30. An Introduction to Design Thinking
In One Hour
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