Pierce E C Gordon
As a dual NSF and Chancellor's Fellow in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG), Pierce researches the methods, and capacity of measuring and evaluating innovation of social change. By understanding how socially-minded organizations, integrate, support, and channel innovation-incentivizing processes to generate value for end consumers, he characterizes current best practices for developing novel products, agnostic of geographic, temporal, or cultural context.
Expertises include design thinking/human centered design pedagogy, history, and evaluation, survey development, innovation cycle iteration and analysis, impact evaluation theory and practice, innovation and history in international development, and Multinational Corporation forays into bottom-of-the-pyramid markets.
He also served as the president of the Black Graduate Engineers and Science Students for two years, as an flagship member of the Development Impact Lab's Idea Team, on the Diversity and Social Media Committee of the Energy and Resources Group. He has served also as an instructor for the Graduate Regents Exam and the Standardized Aptitude Test for Sherwood Test Prep, and has served as the marketing official for has conducted community service with the Bay Area Morehouse Alumni Association and Bay Area Scientists in Schools.
In a past life, he completed the Dual-Degree Engineering Program while obtaining summa cum laude degrees at both Morehouse College and the University of Michigan, in Applied Physics and Aerospace Engineering. His past research experience includes autonomous satellite research at MIT, in-situ resource utilization of lunar regolith research at NASA Glenn Research Center, and practical manufacturing experience at the Corvette plant at the General Motors Bowling Green plant, among other experiences.
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Programming (R, Stata, MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, others)
Supervisors: Alice Agogino and Daniel Kammen
Expertises include design thinking/human centered design pedagogy, history, and evaluation, survey development, innovation cycle iteration and analysis, impact evaluation theory and practice, innovation and history in international development, and Multinational Corporation forays into bottom-of-the-pyramid markets.
He also served as the president of the Black Graduate Engineers and Science Students for two years, as an flagship member of the Development Impact Lab's Idea Team, on the Diversity and Social Media Committee of the Energy and Resources Group. He has served also as an instructor for the Graduate Regents Exam and the Standardized Aptitude Test for Sherwood Test Prep, and has served as the marketing official for has conducted community service with the Bay Area Morehouse Alumni Association and Bay Area Scientists in Schools.
In a past life, he completed the Dual-Degree Engineering Program while obtaining summa cum laude degrees at both Morehouse College and the University of Michigan, in Applied Physics and Aerospace Engineering. His past research experience includes autonomous satellite research at MIT, in-situ resource utilization of lunar regolith research at NASA Glenn Research Center, and practical manufacturing experience at the Corvette plant at the General Motors Bowling Green plant, among other experiences.
Design/Innovation Consultation
Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator capable.
Programming (R, Stata, MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, others)
Supervisors: Alice Agogino and Daniel Kammen
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1) Which, if any, of the HCD characteristics, are potential predictors for successful designs?
2) How well do the present themes and metrics of the OpenIDEO design community correlate with metrics of Human-Centered Design?
These qualitative methods complement previous quantitative network analyses of the OpenIDEO network, in the hopes of developing benchmarks for HCD methods that successfully cater to user needs.
1) Which, if any, of the HCD characteristics are potential predictors for successful designs?
2) How well do the present themes and metrics of the OpenIDEO design community correlate with metrics of Human-Centered Design?
These qualitative methods complement previous quantitative network analyses of the OpenIDEO network, in the hopes of developing benchmarks for HCD methods that successfully cater to user needs.
OpenIDEO is an online collaborative platform that harnesses crowd source design talent across the Internet to tackle difficult interdisciplinary problems. Many of their design Challenges have focused upon issues concerning impoverished communities. Challenges include human sanitation solutions, alternatives for serving maternal health issues with mobile technologies, affordable learning tools, and social business models to improve health, and other pressing global quandaries. The platform uses tens of thousands of designers to use Human-Centered Design (HCD) techniques to develop interventions for the public and private sectors, in the form of products and services which are catered specifically to users’ needs. These products and services have considerable economic, social, and cultural benefits for firms and customers alike. In fact, the umbrella company IDEO has developed an HCD toolkit that helps designers develop products and services tailored for communities at the base of the pyramid. While the website creates innovative solutions to these varied problems, it also creates a rich trove of open-source data which shows the process by which these ideas were created.
The rich content of OpenIDEO affords a novel opportunity to study the presence and effectiveness of HCD metrics in practice.
This text serves two purposes:
1) To integrate the field of design thinking for the poor into the larger discourse of product and service development for the poor, i.e., Bottom of the Pyramid research,
2) To characterize and evaluate elements of HCD competence for development-based challenges in the OpenIDEO platform.
1) Which, if any, of the HCD characteristics, are potential predictors for successful designs?
2) How well do the present themes and metrics of the OpenIDEO design community correlate with metrics of Human-Centered Design?
These qualitative methods complement previous quantitative network analyses of the OpenIDEO network, in the hopes of developing benchmarks for HCD methods that successfully cater to user needs.
1) Which, if any, of the HCD characteristics are potential predictors for successful designs?
2) How well do the present themes and metrics of the OpenIDEO design community correlate with metrics of Human-Centered Design?
These qualitative methods complement previous quantitative network analyses of the OpenIDEO network, in the hopes of developing benchmarks for HCD methods that successfully cater to user needs.
OpenIDEO is an online collaborative platform that harnesses crowd source design talent across the Internet to tackle difficult interdisciplinary problems. Many of their design Challenges have focused upon issues concerning impoverished communities. Challenges include human sanitation solutions, alternatives for serving maternal health issues with mobile technologies, affordable learning tools, and social business models to improve health, and other pressing global quandaries. The platform uses tens of thousands of designers to use Human-Centered Design (HCD) techniques to develop interventions for the public and private sectors, in the form of products and services which are catered specifically to users’ needs. These products and services have considerable economic, social, and cultural benefits for firms and customers alike. In fact, the umbrella company IDEO has developed an HCD toolkit that helps designers develop products and services tailored for communities at the base of the pyramid. While the website creates innovative solutions to these varied problems, it also creates a rich trove of open-source data which shows the process by which these ideas were created.
The rich content of OpenIDEO affords a novel opportunity to study the presence and effectiveness of HCD metrics in practice.
This text serves two purposes:
1) To integrate the field of design thinking for the poor into the larger discourse of product and service development for the poor, i.e., Bottom of the Pyramid research,
2) To characterize and evaluate elements of HCD competence for development-based challenges in the OpenIDEO platform.