Review the Design Guide Below

Then answer the questions which follow based on the values and design principles of your own project.

PASTE THE QUESTIONS BELOW INTO YOUR OWN POST, THEN ANSWER THEM. YOU MAY NEED TO DO THIS MORE THAN ONCE DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR PROJECT.

Describe your project briefly

1. Project:

2. Key Values (yours, and those of project):

For example, your project might support health by getting kids to do winter sports; or it might relieve stress by scheduling time with a puppy in the library. Or it might require cash, time or attention in short supply by college students.

3. Measure of success:

Consider YOUR project and how your design choices may affect each of the SIX human sensitivities described above. Beside each sensitivity, list ways the project currently engages these, and ways you might improve on current practices.

4. Emotional

5. Attention

6. Sensemaking

7. Decisionmaking

8. Social Reasoning

9. Group Dynamics

Now develop an action statement for Humane Technology using your evaluation above and prioritization from the previous sheet.

10. In what ways does your project currently engage Human Sensitivities?

    • Which specific elements might warrant redesign?
    • Are the success criteria in tension with any sensitivities?

11. How might your project support or elevate human sensitivities?

    • Where are humans naturally brilliant at manifesting the value proposition?
    • How might a design element change to better support that brilliance?
    • With social sensitivities, could the design encourage people to meet the goal in real life? Consider the “Natural Anti-depressants” in Johan Hari’s Lost Connections, for example.
    • Do any success criteria need to shift to support human sensitivities?

12. Action Statement

    • What is one thing you want to learn more about?
    • What would you like to discuss with your team?
    • What would you like to design or prototype?
    • Are there any new design principles you might employ?

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