“Designed in California” is a brand statement used by high-tech manufacturers to denote provenance and cachet of digital innovation and modernity. In this paper, we explore philosophically alternate design perspectives to those this statement embodies, reporting and reflecting on a long-term multi-sited project that seeks to diversify future-making by engaging communities of “emergent” users in “developing” regions. We argue that digital technologies are typically created with a design lens firmly focused on “first world” populations, assuming a base set of cultural norms, resource availabilities, and technological experience levels that do not strongly align with those of emergent users. We discuss and argue for inclusive technology design methods, present our approach, and detail indicative results and case studies as an example of the potential of these perspectives in uncovering radical innovations. Distilling findings and lessons learned, we present a methodology—itinerative design—that pivots between emergent user communities across multiple regions, driving digital innovation through the periphery of mainstream design’s current remit.

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通过迭代设计实现多样化未来

“Designed in California”是高科技制造商用来表示数字创新和现代性的来源和声望的品牌声明。在本文中，我们探索了与本声明所体现、报告和反思的长期多站点项目不同的设计观点，该项目旨在通过吸引“发展中”地区的“新兴”用户社区来实现未来创造的多样化。我们认为，数字技术通常是在设计镜头的基础上专注于“第一世界”人口，假设基本的文化规范、资源可用性和技术经验水平与新兴用户的水平不一致。我们讨论并主张包容性技术设计方法，展示我们的方法，并详细说明指示性结果和案例研究，作为这些观点在发现激进创新方面的潜力的例子。提炼发现和经验教训，我们提出了一种方法论——迭代设计——它在跨多个地区的新兴用户社区之间进行了枢纽，通过主流设计当前职权范围的外围推动数字创新。