Learn engaging skills for developing user-insights through Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking.
Building empathy is a component of the entrepreneurial journey. During this workshop, you will gain tangible techniques and skills to use throughout your entrepreneurial process to better understand your user and key stakeholders involved in your idea, while also improving your own personal development. From ideation to validation and through prototyping, these techniques and skills can be used repeatedly for higher level insights and innovative development.
Skill Level: Beginner.
What You'll Learn:
- Two key design-thinking techniques for building empathy in the entrepreneurial process.
About the speaker:
Alissa Bilfield received her PhD in Public Health from Tulane University, her Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. She is a faculty member at the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, Eller School of Management at the University of Arizona.
Her interests include sustainability, food systems, and inclusive entrepreneurship. Her interdisciplinary background includes work and research in the government, nonprofit and academic sectors that has spanned the United States and 14 different countries, ranging from Guatemala to Sri Lanka. Bilfield is also a social entrepreneur herself, having co-founded a food literacy and cooking education nonprofit called The Cookbook Project.
Event Registration Instructions
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This event is for Hubud and Dojo members only with 10 limited spots for public. If you want to join this event, please register at Hubud Front Desk or send us an email to rsvp@hubud.org and kindly mention if you’re an active members or non members.
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