Global Pulse is an innovation initiative that is developing a new approach to crisis impact monitoring. Global Pulse is developing HunchWorks, a place where experts of all kinds can post hypotheses—or hunches—that may warrant further exploration and then crowdsource data and verification. HunchWorks will be a key global platform for rapidly detecting emerging crises and their impacts on vulnerable communities. Using it, experts will be able to quickly surface ground truth and detect anomalies in data about collective behavior for further analysis, investigation and action.
Adaptive Path has been collaborating with the Global Pulse team to identify the challenges surrounding HunchWorks to help with some of the complex UX problems and design solutions. With a idea as big HunchWorks, we wanted to open up the task to the UX community in order to push the work forward.
Session Takeaways:
- Learn UX principles through hands-on engagement
- Be a part of designing for the UN’s initiative to detect and mitigate crises.
- Work with members of the UN Global Pulse team to solve specific UX/design problems.
- Employ different methods for collaborative generation and synthesizing of concepts.
Bio
P.J. is a Design Technologist at
Adaptive Path. He believes in the importance of advocating for solutions that are open, honest, fair and designed or built with the public's best interest in mind.
He is passionate about creating tools, products and services that improve the lives of both the owner and consumer in a way that is beneficial to the design and development communities.
P.J.’s education is split between design and technology and most of his work has called on him to use both skill sets to solve various problems.
His work leads him to discover new mediums and platforms to create more open and transparent forms of communication and dialog. While at Current TV, he was the lead designer and developer on Current Viewpoints, a project targeted towards creating an open channel of discussion on a range of political topics.
P.J. has provided an ample amount of work as CreativeCommons/GPL to the design and development communities. He’s been blogging for over seven years at
somerandomdude.com. He enjoys cooking, photography and listening to baseball on the radio.
