Use Human-Centered Design
What is human-centered design?
Human-Centered Design is an accessible process that can help you create innovative resources that center the communities that you serve in your work. Ask Every Student uses a human-centered design approach to develop resources in collaboration with campus partners to meet and center their needs as they work to increase student voter participation. This process is currently used across all sectors and the skills are transferable to many professional goals.
A short overview video from IDEO.org about human-centered design.
Ask Every Student Human-Centered Design 101 Training Materials
This training provides a comprehensive overview of the human-centered design (HCD) process and prepares participants to develop innovative project plans that center affected stakeholders (such as students, faculty, staff, and community members) in every step of the process.
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Human-Centered Design Training
This recording of a webinar-style training provides participants an introduction to the human-centered design process and how it can be used to improve your civic engagement work. The slides are linked in the video description.
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HCD Project Plan Worksheet
Use this worksheet and external resources to incorporate a human-centered design approach into your projects. This worksheet uses civic engagement projects as examples, but you can adapt it to any project that facilitates social change.
Campus-created resources for using human-centered design
Use these sample and template resources to better understand your own campus community’s context, needs, and opportunities for asking every student.
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HCD Sessions and Surveys with Faculty
Work with faculty to integrate civic engagement into their classroom and prepare students to participate in the democratic process.
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HCD Sessions and Surveys with Students
Use these focus groups, brainstorms and surveys with students to design engagement activities that make voting easier and more relevant for students.
Student Engagement Profiles from the University of Central Florida
Learn from 2022 Codesigner Cohort participant Amanda Dever from the University of Central Florida (UCF) about how she interviewed students to create “personas” that identify the different needs, experiences, and interests of different students on her campus.
You can use the Interview Intake Sheet she created to have interviews with students on your own campus and create personas based on what you learn!
Presentation about Student Engagement Profiles by 2022 Codesigner Amanda Dever from UCF.