Understand others
Listen to users before rushing to an answer.
Social Design
Design for Real People
Design for People
YOUR FIRST FOUR-SESSION UNIT
How might we make borrowing materials easier?
Children begin with a real inconvenience, interview users, make trade-offs together, and let real people test the solution.
- Ages
- 8–11
- Format
- 4 sessions · Project-based
- Outcome
- Service prototype
ASK · TEST · EXPLAINNOT JUST THE ANSWER
What will children take with them?
Negotiate trade-offs
Choose priorities together across different needs.
Validate in real life
Let people try the idea and use feedback to judge whether it works.
ONE QUESTION · FOUR STEPS
One question, four deeper steps
Every session leaves visible progress and opens a new question for the next attempt.
Listen first
Observe the borrowing process and run short interviews.
Choose a solution together
Organize needs and compare possible approaches.
Let real people try it
Prototype signs, a process, or storage.
Check whether change helped
Gather feedback, revise, and explain the final choice.
MAKE
SOMETHING
REAL.
SOMETHING
REAL.
THE FINAL PROJECT
A borrowing-service prototype tested by real users
Children deliver a flow, visual signs, or storage concept and use feedback to explain what problem it solves.
Materials we’ll use
Sticky notes, interview cards, cardboard, labels, markers, feedback form
READY FOR THE FIRST TRY?