Michael Carcamo's IxDF Course Certificate: Design for the 21st Century with Don Norman
The IxDF Course Certificate above is awarded to Michael Carcamo with a Best in Class Distinction in formal recognition of their coursework surpassing the rigorous benchmarks of exceptional performance established by the IxDF Educational Codex.
Michael Carcamo has mastered how to:
- Explain how designers can improve the world by applying design as a practical approach to real societal challenges.
- Use human-centered design to address global problems by grounding solutions in real people, contexts, and needs.
- Distinguish user-centered, people-centered, and human-centered design to choose an approach that fits broader impacts.
- Democratize design within teams and communities by enabling wider participation and shared ownership of solutions.
- Differentiate wicked problems from complex socio-technical systems to frame challenges accurately and avoid oversimplified fixes.
- Apply human-centered insights and processes to complex challenges using problem framing, root-cause thinking, and systems thinking.
- Design solutions that keep people at the center while balancing stakeholder needs, constraints, and real-world adoption.
- Use feedback loops to support lasting change by understanding how interventions ripple through systems over time.
About the IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation
Founded in 2002, the Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) sets the industry gold standard for learning design, with courses taught by experts from industry leaders such as NASA, Google, and Adobe.
