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As a user-designer face-to-face design approach, co-design needs the two sides standing at each other’s perspectives for problem solving. In co-design, the key point is building empathy between designers and users. This paper went through the literature about “design empathy”. A practical co-design workshop was organized which proved the effectiveness of design probes for empathy building. Other findings include the three modes of designers’ participation in co-design.
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Yuan, S., Dong, H. (2014). Empathy Building through Co-design. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design and Development Methods for Universal Access. UAHCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8513. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07437-5_9
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