Highlights•1300+ crowd workers provided written design solutions to problems from the
literature.•Crowd responses were text-mined to extract near vs. far inspirational stimuli.•The …

Engineers face many challenges when designing for the develo** world, which are not
typically encountered in other design circumstances, such as a lack of understanding of …

While many tools and methodologies for assessing social impact exist and are used in the
social science and global development fields, there is a lack of standard methods for …

Integrating user‐centered approaches into development processes is one of the main
challenges nowadays that derives from different objectives of software engineering (SE) and …

Ecodesign has gained significant traction in recent years ranging from academic research to
business applications at a global scale. Initial emphasis on the environmental aspect of …

“Development engineering” is a new interdisciplinary field that we define as creating
solutions that improve human development in low-resource settings at a scale for large …

Though academic research for identifying and considering the social impact of products is
emerging, additional insights can be gained from engineers who design products every day …

Learning is often framed in the learning sciences through a metaphor of construction, a
perspective which describes learning as a process in which meaning is individually and …

Background To achieve informed choice within the framework of reproductive autonomy,
family planning programs have begun to adopt user-centered approaches to service …

Designers' choices of methods are well known to shape project outcomes. However,
questions remain about why design teams select particular methods and how teams' …