Learn how to get Free YouTube subscribers, views and likes
Get Free YouTube Subscribers, Views and Likes

Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries

Follow
Design Theory

Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/DT20 and use code DT20 for 20% off
DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com

Become a patron of my channel:   / johnmauriello  

Sign up to learn more about the design book that we're going to publish: https://www.studioello.com/mail

Check out my online industrial design course, Form Fundamentals: https://bit.ly/335vsqO
Join my discord channel:   / discord  
Follow me on Twitter:   / john_mauriello  
Follow my Instagram:   / mauriellodesign  
Follow me on LinkedIn:   / mauriellojohn  

All content directed and written by John Mauriello. John Mauriello has been working professionally as an industrial designer since 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts.

Edited by Brad Heath: https://bradleyheath.com/

Why is it so hard for talented designers to create great products for developing countries? To get closer to an answer, I spoke with experts in international development, designers from diverse cultures, and conducted extensive secondary research.

Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
2:48 Playpump
5:40 Mosquito (Fishing) Nets
8:02 DeleteMe
9:04 One Laptop Per Child
24:45 Is It Possible to Design For Cultures You Don't Belong To?

Main Works Cited:
"The Charisma Machine" by Morgan G Ames https://amzn.to/3RMvCty
"User Friendly" by Cliff Kuang https://amzn.to/3W2w5ud
NY Times, Malaria Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/wo...
Neo Nurture TED Talk (and the Design That Matters official website):    • Timothy Prestero: Design for people, ...  
Liter of Light NPR article: https://www.npr.org/2011/12/28/144385...
"Design for the Real World" by Victor Papanek. I never explicitly cited this book, but it was really good for adding color/clarity to the topic:
https://amzn.to/4co8CcS

Other works were cited but in a smaller capacity. When referenced, they are displayed in the bottom left corner of the video.

posted by Dustin89