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Human-Centered Problem Discovery

Expertise

Use of stakeholder inquiry, field observation, and participatory methods to frame engineering problems before solution commitment.

Make the interfaces visible before local decisions become system constraints.

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Organization
NASA
Topics
human-centered design, early problem discovery, ethnography, design research, systems engineering

Practice note

Makes operational context and human experience first-class engineering evidence.

Sources

Outside review of a consequential program or decision.

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