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NYU D&T Session 14: Persona Design; Guest Speaker Vernelle Noel
Announcements
Medical Bias Movie
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TCS Spring Writing Awards. Let me know ASAP if you would like to be considered; I’ll ask you to edit your paper further.
Next Monday, 4/1: Class Observation by external evaluator. This class will be observed by Prof. Scott Fitzgerald as part of standard TCS faculty evaluations.
4:30 Persona Design Exercise. When you finish this exercise, please post readable (high-resolution) photos of your partner’s completed worksheets to your blog and comment on them; it will count toward your final blog post count. Please work in the following pairs, based on the salient social identities of your projects:
Tahmid, Munsu
Nicole, Michael, Ari
Alice, Shiv
Ishan, Mohamed
Alex, Abid
Jeremy, Tamim
Nabiha, Shahriar
Augustin, Rabiya
Sierra, Jaynaba
Camil, Ashia
5:30 Guest Speaker Vernelle Noel
Assignments
Blog post, due Monday 4/1: Discuss your current thoughts on continuing your midterm project.
Will you continue to develop it for the final? If not, what might you work on for the final project?
Based on your current project thinking, discuss where and how you might find potential people to test your project and provide feedback. Discuss where/who you will find
People with the salient social identity of your audience (e.g. those who are vision-impaired, elderly, hearing-impaired, low-income, experiencing mental health issues, experiencing posture issues etc.)
People with the salient social identity that ALSO have pertinent personal identities (e.g. low-income music students, disabled cooks, hearing-impaired finance students, etc)?
A professional who is an expert practitioner with your project’s technical, socioeconomic and/or scientific challenges?