After giving some thought, I am interested in working at a full service humanitarian design consultancy or in the consumer health, medical, education, or strategy divisions in a global design consultancy. I see myself doing this after earning my masters in Human Computer Interaction and working as a human factors engineer, user experience designer, or design analyst.
I enjoy the notion of working in a medium-sized, full service consultancy where I can work in a close nit environment with my co-workers, while at the same time working in diverse interdisciplinary groups that bring different values and ways of thinking into the problem or project at hand. Even though I plan on specializing in a certain field I do want to learn about the business aspects of the consultancy so that I have the option of starting my own business in the future. I want to eventually get myself in a position where I can volunteer my time towards non-profit humanitarian design organizations.
Conformity or environments where people are aloof, close-minded, or too persistent in only seeing things from their own perspective discourage me. I also would dislike to be purely designing for desires and wants because I want to utilize design, if applicable with technology, to empower people and address the true needs that society and individuals have.
I would like to know how humanitarian design consultancies get funded outside of their small client that they may be working with. I would like to know how these types of projects survive in the long run and if they can be reproduced in different areas in need of the same type of systems. How do you measure the impact a product has on a community?
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