Designing Environmental Solutions
It’s time to disrupt the way we view conservation, and the solutions possible. Conservationists can be technology leaders—and, in fact, they need to be tech leaders to tackle the growing sophistication of threats to nature.
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Lesson 1: Designing for Humans
How do I understand the needs of those involved with my challenge, in order to design solutions they’ll love?
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Lesson 2: Generating New Ideas
How do I come up with innovative ideas for environmental solutions?
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Lesson 3: Prototyping and Iteration
How do I prototype, test, and iterate an environmental solution?
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Painless Failure
Embracing failure allows us to prototype iteratively, and get to great solutions sooner. Alberto Savoia, Google’s ‘Failure Guru’, encourages us to think of our prototypes as experiments to help make failure ‘painless.’ (Watch 0:00 – 0:47)