Designing Products of the Future
Root Cause Analysis
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Root Cause Analysis
Overview
“A technique related to backcasting is root cause analysis. It's used in quality control, medicine, mechanical engineering, and other disciplines to identify the chain of events that lead to a disease, a breakdown, or other problem. In the context of backcasting, you'll learn how to use it to understand the factors that influence the future you want to build.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: Root Cause Analysis, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Products of the Future. Learn to research and design dynamic and problem-solving products for a better future.
Partial transcription of the video
“Root Cause Analysis In the last lesson, I walked you through a couple of examples of backcasting, which is basically a product roadmap for your future artifacts. The same way we looked at multiple orders of consequences in our first mapping lessons, we'll apply the same level of rigor in this lesson to map our terrain. So no surprise since backcasting is like forecasting, but in reverse. A lot of these steps are just reversed operations of the things that we did in our very first mapping exercise into the future space. The technique that I'd like to share with you is something that is alrea...”
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Course summary for: Designing Products of the Future
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Design, Design Management, Industrial Design, Information Design, Product Design
Cecilia Tham
A course by Cecilia Tham
As an industry leader, Cecilia MoSze Tham is founder and director of Futurity Studio, an innovative future-focused research and design studio. She was a Senior Social Technologist at Alpha Telefonica. She has founded multiple companies such as MOB: Makers of Barcelona; FabCafe, a café that combines technology, workshops, and coffee; and Allwomen.tech, the first A.I. training campus for women.
Cecilia is the recipient of numerous awards such as the Faculty Design Award by Harvard University and Creative Entrepreneur of the Year by Creative Net. Cecilia has given talks at World Mobile Congress, Smart City Expo, IAM Fest, SHIFT Open FAD, and 4YFN, as well as four TEDx talks. She was a regular contributor to the newspaper L’Econòmic and La Roca Gallery. Cecilia participated at the Singularity University Global Solution Program for climate change at NASA Ames and she is currently an advisor for United Nation World Food Program X.
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