Human Centered Design Courses

Stanford Seminar - TechFail: From Intersectional Inaccessibility to Inclusive Design

Exploration of gaming technology accessibility, highlighting issues and potential solutions. Discusses inclusive design approaches and the impact on marginalized users, drawing from a decade-long ethnography.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Design Thinking and Innovation: An Interview with David Kelley

Explore innovation and design thinking with David Kelley, co-founder of IDEO and Stanford's d.school, as he shares insights on problem-solving and creativity in business and academia.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Leveraging Human Input to Enable Robust AI Systems

Explores techniques for incorporating human input into AI systems, focusing on maintaining uncertainty over human intent, generating risk-averse behaviors, and efficiently querying for additional input to improve performance.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Considerations for Human-Robot Collaboration

Explore the future of human-robot collaboration, focusing on effective teamwork, contextual understanding, and the unique challenges of integrating robots into human-configured environments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Towards Robust Human-Robot Interaction - A Quality Diversity Approach

Exploring diverse human-robot interaction scenarios using quality diversity algorithms to discover failure cases, improve scenario generation, and enhance understanding of complex systems.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Design & AI - Envisioning AI-Augmented Products

Explore AI's impact on product design, human-centered techniques for ideation, and future AI-powered innovations with Stanford's Michael Bernstein in this insightful webinar on the intersection of design and artificial intelligence.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Design Thinking - What Is It and Why Should I Care?

Explore design thinking basics with Stanford experts. Learn to apply creative problem-solving techniques to work and personal challenges through real-time demonstrations and audience interactions.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Humanizing Robot Design - Aaron Edsinger of Hello Robot

Exploring the future of human-robot collaboration, focusing on safe, intuitive, and affordable robots designed to improve quality of life in various sectors, from eldercare to service industries.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Get in Touch: Tactile Perception for Human-Robot Systems

Explore advancements in tactile perception for robots, including sensor technologies, haptic perception, and applications in human-robot interaction and manipulation of deformable objects.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Leading Innovation and Design Thinking

Discover how Steve Suarez introduced design thinking at HSBC, exploring challenges, successes, and key lessons in building corporate innovation. Learn to lead innovation in your company.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Time Before Birth: A Look at Developing Human Brain

Explore the developing human brain before birth through advanced imaging techniques and machine learning models, offering insights into fetal neurodevelopment and potential clinical applications.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Runway - A New Tool for Distributed Systems Design

Introducing Runway: a comprehensive tool for designing distributed systems, combining specification, simulation, visualization, and model checking to evaluate correctness, availability, and performance.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Design Thinking Hybrid - An Evolution of Innovation

Explore the evolution of design thinking as an innovation method, its adaptation for business, and techniques for incorporating it into organizational culture to drive large-scale impact.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Design Thinking vs. The Lean Startup

Explore the differences between design thinking and lean startup methodologies for innovation, with insights on their philosophies, practical applications, and limitations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How to Design Addictive Games

Explore game design secrets for creating addictive experiences, focusing on flow state, player engagement, and industry insights from a veteran designer's personal journey.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video