Designing our future students: Introducing User Experience to teens through a UCD charette.

ABSTRACTIn order to introduce high school students to the user-centered design process, our team created an outreach activity called the UCD charette. In this experience report, we share how we developed and implemented the charette. We provide background on the rationale and original goals of the charette. Next, we detail how we iteratively developed the workshop and piloted it with over 160 students, in 14 settings. To evaluate the effort, we collected and analyzed quantitative and qualitative assessment data from students, feedback from teachers, and our team's considerations of what worked well and what needed improvement. We conclude this report with reflections on the effort, limitations and our next steps for the project.