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Empathy in human-centred design helps create products that meet user needs. Developing empathic tools ensures products resonate with individuals, preventing misuse or abandonment.

Keywords:

Empathy authentic human behaviour human-centred design research strategies shared language

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Area of Science:

Product Development
Human-Computer Interaction
Design Research

Background:

Effective products must satisfy functional and emotional user needs.
Products failing to resonate with users may be misused, underused, or abandoned.
This is critical in healthcare, e.g., unused Zimmer frames due to perceived stigma.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the role of empathy in human-centred design for new product development.
To present empathic design tools and strategies for identifying authentic human needs.
To encourage healthcare providers to adopt human-centred design principles.

Main Methods:

Development of empathic design tools and strategies.
Training designers to develop empathy with end-users, including those with disabilities.
Utilizing empathic modeling to gain user insight.

Main Results:

Empathic design tools help identify authentic human needs.
Developing empathy reduces the gap between designers and diverse end-users.
Sensitizing designers to user behaviors improves design outcomes.

Conclusions:

Human-centred design, driven by empathy, is crucial for product success.
Empathy ensures products meet emotional and functional needs, increasing user acceptance.
Focusing on the end-user's needs leads to more effective and resonant product design.