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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Course Content
Total content: 42 activities
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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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Prototyping Roadmap
Imagine prototypes at different levels of fidelity (and find cheaper, quicker ways of testing). Be intentional about using different prototypes to answer different questions.
You can also access the editable version of this activity here.
Prototyping Roadmap:
- Discuss the feedback you’ve gotten and how you’ll incorporate it. What changes are needed?
- What are the biggest questions you’re still sitting with, and what might you build to test them?
- What would you build with a $50 budget?
- What would you build with a $500 budget?
- What would you build with a $5,000 budget?
- Imagine a “dark horse” prototype that would intentionally fail to learn the limits of your idea. What would you build?
- Critique in pairs: are there ways to hack these prototypes and build them for 1/10th the price? 1/100th the price? What might you borrow from other industries, tools, etc.? (e.g. could you build a WhatsApp group to prototype an app or social network? How might you hack a wizard-of-oz prototype?)