5 Design Action

[Thomasina Norse]

Newproducts and systems often require people to change established business models and behaviors. As a result they encounter stiff resistance from their intended beneficiaries and from the people who have to deliver or operate them.

Throughout most of history, design was a process applied to physical objects. Raymond Loewy designed trains. Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses. Charles Eames designed furniture. Coco Chanel designed haute couture. Paul Rand designed logos. David Kelley designed products, including (most famously) the mouse for the Apple computer.

Design in Action offers DCPS students in 11th and 12th grades the opportunity to learn from professionals in top architecture firms. Students shadow architects during their spring break on construction site visits, in design and client meetings, and more. Students also have the opportunity to work on their own design project.

Design in Action introduces students to architecture as a career. This unparalleled immersive experience provides an inside look at daily life in the architecture profession, in working studios around Washington, DC. Students will have a chance to participate in a variety of roles including:

The goal of Design in Action is to introduce high school students with an interest in design and architecture to the creativity and passion that drives accomplished professionals. By showing students what high-quality architecture can be, and by sharing the process that creates it, we hope to inspire students who would not otherwise have an opportunity to pursue their creative interests.

Design in Action provides students with insider knowledge into the architecture profession and provides them with valuable contacts that can work with them throughout their careers. Design in Action engages students on a practical level as they:

Design Action Collective was founded in the early 2000s by two members of Inkworks Press. For over 20 years, the shop has been producing graphics to serve social justice campaigns and grassroots organizations.

This salon will feature the perspectives and insights of Sabiha Basrai, a member of Design Action Collective, as she delves into a curated selection of posters representing decades of movement history and demonstrates what is possible when graphic designers build long term trust and collaborative spaces centering people most impacted by systemic oppression.

As an interdisciplinary team, our research aims at translating theories in cognitive sciences, human-computer interaction, human factors and health informatics to understand and build sociotechnical solutions for promoting complex cognitive activities (such as learning and decision-making) and health behavior/communication among diverse patient populations across the lifespan. [Learn More]

Keywords from Current Research Projects: Applied Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Foraging, Self-Regulated Learning, Decision-Making, Cognitive Aging, Health Communication, Health Literacy, Health Misinformation, Digital Health, Precision Medicine, Cancer Prevention and Control, Conversational Agents

March 29. Congrats to Michelle Bak for her first-authored peer-reviewed journal article, The potential and limitations of large language models in identification of the states of motivations for facilitating health behavior change, appeared on the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association!!!

For over a decade Bescy (ex: Action Design Network) has promoted applied behavioral science around the world with an all-volunteer team. We welcome your organization's involvement to support and expand our work.

In collaboration with Action Design Network, Hello-Better delivered Bescy's new strategic positioning, brand, naming, visual identity and activation. Bescy is designed to promote and engage the Behavioral Science community and many other audiences.

Busara is an international non-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. Busara applies and advances behavioral science for poverty allievation across the Global South, and has helped support the BehavioralTeams.com project.

Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. www.capitalfactory.com

The Equitable Healthcare Action Lab focuses on changing frontline care delivery via people-centered design. From new payment models to workforce issues, leveraging technology to confronting racial disparities, we work with a range of partners to address systemic drivers of inequity.

Through experimentation and real-world application, the Net Positive Behavioral Lab generates behavioral design approaches to understand and address some of the thorniest issues our society faces and bring about net positive results.

Remedial design (RD) is the phase in Superfund site cleanup where the technical specifications for cleanup remedies and technologies are designed. Remedial action (RA) follows the remedial design phase. It involves the actual construction or implementation phase of Superfund site cleanup. The RD/RA is based on the specifications described in the Record of Decision (ROD).

Value engineering (VE) is a specialized cost-control technique. It uses a systematic and creative approach to identify and reduce unjustifiably high project costs without sacrificing reliability or efficiency.

Superfund State Contracts (SSCs) are required at sites where remedial actions will be fund-financed. For more information see the final rule issued by EPA entitled Cooperative Agreements and Superfund State Contracts for Superfund Response Actions (PDF) (27 pp, 478 K). Here you will find RD/RA information related to SSCs.

In August 1995, EPA established a National Risk-Based Priority Panel of program experts to evaluate the risk at National Priorities List sites with respect to human health and the environment. The Agency uses these evaluations to establish funding priorities for all new cleanup construction projects in the Superfund program. This national approach is intended as a way for each Region to list its priority projects and rank these projects against priority projects from other Regions, ensuring that scarce resources are allocated to the projects posing the most risk to human health and the environment.

Each year, EPA selects new construction projects for funding based on prioritization of those sites that present the greatest risk to human health and the environment. To make the most efficient use of funds, the remedial program prioritizes funding for previously mobilized, ongoing construction projects over the funding to start new construction projects. As a consequence, EPA is unable to fund new construction work at some NPL sites that otherwise may be ready for new construction work. Construction projects awaiting funding result when a potentially responsible party is not found or cannot pay, and no other funding sources, including appropriated funds, are available.

It's a mashup of performance consulting and backward design, with a focus on real-world behaviors rather than assessment questions. I published the first version in May 2008 (here's the first blog post about it).

In May 2013, I deepened step 2 to include the use of a flowchart that helps identify lean, in-the-workflow solutions, such as job aids or process improvements. Training is rarely the best or only solution to a problem.

It's a collaborative process -- the designer doesn't create the map on their own. Action mapping works far better if the client and subject matter expert are included from the very beginning. Both should definitely be included when setting the goal, and the SME at least should be included in identifying what people need to do and why they aren't doing it. No designer should create a design in isolation.

You should make sure training is really part of the solution. People were skipping this aspect of step 2, which is why I added the handy flowchart. Action mapping includes needs analysis; it's not just a way to organize content. Unfortunately, some people have presented the system as a way to design activities based on content from the client, skipping the analysis.

Action mapping isn't intended for use in academia. I created action mapping for the corporate world, where it's relatively easy to set a measurable goal and to analyze what people need to do on the job to reach that goal. The process focuses on observable, measurable behaviors, not knowledge, and it assumes that you have people currently doing the job who you can talk to and observe.

It's usually not a super-simple diagram. The map gets as complicated as you need it to get. For example, it's common to list major actions you want people to take on the job and then break them down into sub-action that branch off the major ones. The map shown here is the one I used to design my scenario design course.

It's not a mind map. You don't just add stuff as you think of it. An action map looks like a mind map, but the links between each item create dependencies. Everything on the map has to justify its existence by linking directly to the business goal. The purpose of the map is to prevent the casual adding of content.

Stop being an order taker and help your clients solve the real problem. The Partner from the Start toolkit helps you change how you talk to stakeholders, find the real causes of the problem, and determine what type of training (if any!) will help.

So when user send POST request with let's say deviceId parameter to that endpoint there will be new entry into the database (to have history of all calls and who called the function) and at the same time calls that function on specified device.

Quite often, there is a domain model waiting to be discovered. Most often, things like "send_signal" are telling you that you've modeled your API too close to some library, backend service or database. An API, after all, is the interface you provide.

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