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Gibson, The University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design, USA  \nRESEARCH  \n8  \nAbstract  \n‘Designing backwards’ is presented here as a means to utilize human-centered processes in diverse educational settings to help teachers and students learn to formulate and operate design processes to achieve three sequential and interrelated goals. The first entails teaching them to effectively and empathetically identify, frame and analyze complex social, technological, economic, environmental or public policy problems, or problematic situations. The second involves helping them cultivate understandings from these problem-framing processes to iteratively develop and then assess the relative efficacies of specific prototypes or prototypical ideas that, if implemented, could improve some aspects of these situations on behalf of particular groups of stakeholders. In this context,‘prototyping’ is defined as a heuristic process that allows students to test how operating various strategies and procedures, or deploying particular interventions in the forms of communication systems, affordances, and tools and toolkits, can yield insights about how to affect useful, constructive transformations. The third goal challenges students to correlate the knowledge they gleaned from engaging in the first two processes to work with given groups of stakeholders to develop and implement more relevant, effective and appropriate outcomes to the complex challenges that directly or indirectly affect specific aspects of their lives.  \nKey words  \ndesigning backwards, project framing, prototyping, abductive reasoning  \nAn introduction to designing backwards  \n‘Designing backwards’ is shorthand slang for engaging in the kinds of thinking processes necessary to design and implement products, services, procedures and experiences that relevantly and effectively meet the needs and desires of particular groups of people. It is a human-centered approach to innovating and inventing that begins by observing and interacting with at least some of the people on whose behalf a given product, service or experience will be created or realized. Designing backwards begins when a situation in a specific setting involving a particular group is identified that, in some way or ways, causes or contributes to their experiencing confusion, frustration, dissatisfaction, discomfort or even harm. Careful  \nobservations of multiple incidences of an objectionable situation allows the actions of those involved to be analyzed, along with a variety of factors and conditions that contextualize and affect these actions. The knowledge and understandings these analyses yield can then suggest means of altering the aspects of the situation that make it objectionable or undesirable.  \nDesigning backwards is different from ‘designing forwards’in that the decision-making processes that guide its evolution are not planned and operated as a means to realize concrete, already well-understood end goals. Empirical measures for success- is it faster or slower? Does it cost less or more? Is it more or less visually compelling? -tend to be trumped by criteria that gauge whether or not a certain population feels more empowered, or safer, or more well-accommodated. It is a process that begins not with a well-specified brief or callto-action, but with the formation of questions that direct inquiries that lead to insights and new understandings.  \nThe ethnographically rooted activities that fuel designing backwards can help ensure that what a given group actually needs and desires is accounted for as decisionmaking processes evolve that might eventually yield a new artifact, system, or environment for them to use and experience. Designing backwards can also result in new ways of planning and then doing things, as well as new ways to think about how particular things should ","cbCaid1VIZf3DlYf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid1VIZf3DlYf","pdf",202792,13,"English","# Abstract\n# An introduction to designing backwards\n## Key concepts and goals\n## What makes it different from designing forwards","[{\"question\":\"What are the three sequential goals of designing backwards in education?\",\"answer\":\"First, learners identify and analyze complex problems empathetically. Second, they iteratively develop and assess prototypes to evaluate efficacies. Third, they relate those insights to stakeholder groups to implement more relevant outcomes.\"},{\"question\":\"How does “designing backwards” differ from “designing forwards”?\",\"answer\":\"Designing backwards does not start from a well-specified brief or predetermined end goals. 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