This document discusses using design thinking and UX approaches to improve education in rural India. It describes challenges like illiteracy and outdated teaching methods. It then introduces Happy Horizons Trust (HHT), an organization that uses activity-based and hands-on learning, storytelling, crafts, and video to motivate students and build confidence. Deepika, a former student who became an HHT fellow and now teaches, demonstrates their success in empowering students. The document argues that design thinking can help shift from intuitive to data-driven solutions and scale small local solutions more broadly.

1. Teaching Rural India
Explorations in Design Thinking & UX
Talk @ UXNOW conference, IIT Delhi, Oct 21, 2015

3. Do you like
stories?

4. My Story

5. Design is a
way of life

6. Travel. See. Understand. Reality.

7. Illiteracy. Cows. Electricity.

8. Female literacy. Empowerment.

9. The only tablets I spotted.

10. Classroom. Harsh reality.

11. The stuff they make you do.

12. High Infrastructure. Low quality.

13. Classroom in the corridor.

14. Classroom in the corridor.

15. Married girls in class 1

17. EDUCATION-
a wicked
problem

18. A realisation

19. Rahul’s
Story

20. DEEPIKA’s
STORY
Sparkling eyes

21. Unable to read well

22. Poor on writing

23. Low on self confidence.

24. Curious soul

25. Have you met
Amitabh
Bachchan?

26. CAN
DESIGN
THINKING
&
UX
HELP
?
Can Design
Thinking / UX
help ?

27. Can
Technology
help?

28. The HHT Story

29. How do you
convince ?

30. User research

31. User research

32. It’s all too hard yo!

33. Convince the stakeholders

34. Countless cups of chai consumed

35. ABOUT
HHT
FOCUS:
Improving the
quality of
education

37. Reading
Writing
Speaking
Confidence
Building

39. Increase
Motivation
Inspiration
Determination

41. Work with the
system

43. Take every
Stakeholder
Into account

45. A daunting
task ahead

46. Emphasize on
Activity based
learning

48. Book reading
sessions

50. Confidence
building
activities

52. Story telling

54. Art and craft
sessions

56. Create young
Social leaders
through our
fellowship
program

58. Learning
through
videos

63. After all these
years…

64. HOW DOES IT
CONNECT
BACK TO
UX, DESIGN

65. From
Users
To
Stakeholders

67. From
One large
solution to
Many small
solutions

69. From
Global
to Local
to Glocal

71. From
Intuition driven
To
Data driven

72. From
Product thinking
To
System thinking

74. From
exclusivity
To
inclusivity

76. From
Small impact
To
Large impact

78. Using technology
To drive change
To scale

83. UX in a
connected
world

85. Integration of
Offline and
Online

89. Deepika’s
Story

90. 1st Rukmini Devi Scholarship Awardee

91. Peer learning and mentoring

92. Training on conducting sessions

93. Participatory Learning sessions

94. Driving change in rural areas

95. Craft and Activity based learning

96. A Reflective Practitioner

97. Completes 3 years of fellowship

98. 3 years of
association with HHT
Teacher at a
primary school now
Empowered.

99. h"p://social.yourstory.com/2015/10/happy-­‐horizons-­‐trust/
Recent media coverage

100. Thank You
kshitiz@happyhorizons.in
@kshitiz