Older people are also highly capable when it comes to the "define" aspect of human-centered design -- that is, the unpacking and synthesizing of empathy findings into compelling needs and insights.

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This is particularly true for the human-centered design process -- empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test -- as outlined by the Institute of Design at Stanford, also known as "the d.school" where, in the interest of full disclosure, I have coached a design course called Sustainable Abundance.

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Rather that assuming management, and possibly the Board of Directors, is self-centered and human, they accorded them the highest form of deference.

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The 28-year-old executive, who noted that he grew up with the Internet, said Facebook's Home was an acknowledgment that people's relationship with computing devices was rapidly changing from one focused on productivity or business to one centered around human connections.

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Human beings are often very self-centered and like to talk about themselves.

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In the hoopla that followed the sequencing of the human genome in 2000, much of the excitement centered on the promise of miracle cures molecularly tailored to each individual.

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Gender equality is a human rights principle, a precondition for sustainable, people-centered development, and it is a goal in and of itself.

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