Wholeheartedly agree, and I think that the principles apply more widely across a range of cause areas. The right people not being involved in design solutions can mean external people coming in with “clever” solutions can lead to Play Pump type problems, as well as the more general suboptimal “making the best of what’s already out there” type issues you highlight.
I’m pretty new to EA, so maybe I’ve missed it, but I’ve not seen any discussion of User Centred Design in an EA context. UCD feels like an approach which helps to make sure that solutions are solving the right problems. Does EA need to embrace UCD more?
Wholeheartedly agree, and I think that the principles apply more widely across a range of cause areas. The right people not being involved in design solutions can mean external people coming in with “clever” solutions can lead to Play Pump type problems, as well as the more general suboptimal “making the best of what’s already out there” type issues you highlight.
I’m pretty new to EA, so maybe I’ve missed it, but I’ve not seen any discussion of User Centred Design in an EA context. UCD feels like an approach which helps to make sure that solutions are solving the right problems. Does EA need to embrace UCD more?