The document outlines a workshop on designing with empathy held at the San Antonio Makerspace. The workshop instructs participants to go through a design thinking process of empathizing with a physical impairment, defining the problem as designing an adaptive game controller, ideating solutions through brainstorming and sketching, prototyping a solution, testing it, and sharing their designs. The workshop uses MaKey MaKey kits and presents examples of student designs.

1. Designing with Empathy
Mark Barnett
Don Davis
Mariah Noelle

2. Workshop Presenters

3. San Antonio Makerspace

4. San Antonio Makerspace

5. Designing with Empathy

6. Empathy Experiment

7. MaKey MaKey
Anything
Conductive

8. Empathy Experiment
• How does empathy affect your experience?

9. Define the Problem
• Design Challenge:
– Design a game controller that is best suited for the
physical hand impairment of your choice

10. Explore Possible Solutions
• Brainstorm
– Discuss possible solutions
• Ideate
– Draw quick sketches
• Collaborate
– Decide on a possible solution

11. Prototype

12. Test

13. Industry Solutions

14. Debrief

15. Empathize

16. Define

17. Ideate

18. Prototype

19. Test

20. Student Designs

21. Student Designs

22. Student Designs

23. Student Designs

24. Your Turn
• Develop an Empathy
Project
• MaKey MaKey
• Design Thinking
Process

25. Share

26. Thank You
• @gnu_don
• @Maker_Mark
• @MariahNoelle
• #awesome