Name: Date: Class:

User/Interviewee: Design Space:

Point of View Statement (P.O.V.)

  1. Instructions: Review your user descriptions. What words have you selected to describe the user of the design space? If you could select one or two key words, what would they be?

Example:
User/Description:
Monica Chavez,
activist, smart, funny, worried, caring, responsible
  1. Instructions: Write a sentence starter in the space provided below using the user name and descriptions.

Example:
Worried and responsible community activist Monica Chavez

Sentence starter:

  1. Instructions: Review the verbs/actions that describe the user’s needs. What words have you selected to describe the needs? If you could select one or two key words, what would they be?

Example:
Needs a way too… (verbs)
Communicate quickly with local community leaders who
Get around the community on her bike, with a heavy loads
Help kids get off the street
  1. Instructions: Write a “needs phrase” in the space provided below using the action column of your graphic organizer.

Example:
needs a way to: communicate with community leaders quickly

needs a way to:

  1. Instructions: Review the insights surrounding the user’s needs. Why do they have this need? What makes this need special to this user?

Example:
Many of the community members don’t have cars, cellphones, or computers
There are emergencies that occur that need the attention of all community leaders
The community is divided
She doesn’t want to leave anyone out
It take many voices to solve a problem

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  1. Instructions: Write an “insight/because phrase” in the space provided below using the because column of your graphic organizer.

Example:
because: information from the community is vital in the work she does uniting and empowering local leaders to work towards reform.

because:

  1. Join the three phrases you have developed to create your Point of View Statement.

[Name/adjective…] needs a way to …. [NEED VERB…] because… [UNIQUE INSIGHT]

Example:
Worried and responsible community activist Monica Chavez needs a way to communicate with community leaders quickly because information from the community is vital in the work she does uniting and empowering local leaders to work towards reform.

Point of view statement:

  1. Go through the steps of creating a point of view statement at least two more times. Your goal is to create at least three point of view statements.

Point of view statement:

Point of view statement: