Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
Mileha Soneji: Einfache Lösungen für ein Leben mit Parkinson
Mileha Soneji believes that having empathy and being able to put yourself in another person's shoes is what makes for great design. Full bio
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must have heard about it.
a lot of family events.
used to drag me to these family events.
immer zu solchen Familienfeiern.
that I always looked forward to
mit meinen Cousins herumzutollen.
mit uns herumzuspringen,
eine schöne Zeit.
deteriorate in health.
herzliche Mann gesundheitlich abbaute.
degeneration of the nervous system,
die das Nervensystem degeneriert.
who used to be independent
der immer unabhängig war,
because of tremors, much more difficult.
aufgrund des Zitterns zum Problem.
eine Gehhilfe zu benutzen.
one step at a time, like this,
nach dem anderen machen,
the center of attention
der auf allen Familienfeiern
hinter anderen Leuten.
in people's eyes.
mitleidigen Blicken der anderen.
are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's,
mit Parkinson diagnostiziert --
solve these multifaceted problems,
diese vielschichtigen Probleme lösen.
einen Lösung, die alles löst,
and eventually make a big impact.
mit großer Wirkung erzielen.
to not cure Parkinson's,
much more simple,
der Kranken zu erleichtern
was tremors, right?
drinking coffee or tea in public
öffentlich Kaffee oder Tee zu trinken,
back inside every time they have tremors,
Flüssigkeit bei jedem Zittern zurück
compared to a normal cup.
im Gegensatz zu anderen Tassen drin.
as a Parkinson's patient product.
als Parkinson-Produkt gekennzeichnet.
by you, me, any clumsy person,
von jedem benutzt werden
for them to use, to blend in.
very superficial information,
nur oberflächliche Informationen bekam
auf die gestellten Fragen.
to get a new perspective.
let's observe him in his daily tasks,
observing him walking to his dining table,
zum Esstisch ging, fragte ich mich,
so difficult to walk on flat land,
auf ebenem Boden zu gehen,
a fancy rail that takes you up a staircase
kein schickes Treppengeländer,
buchstäblich erklimmen.
to reach this position,
um diese Position zu erreichen,
without his walker?"
walk on flat land
kaum gehen konnte,
it's because it's a continuous motion.
ununterbrochenen Bewegung möglich ist.
who also suffers from the same symptoms
Krankheitserscheinungen.
this feeling of walking on a staircase
des Treppensteigens
were tested and tried on him,
und probierte Vieles mit ihm aus.
was this one. Let's take a look.
abruptly ended, he froze,
abrupt endete, erstarrte er.
[etwa "Gangstarre"]
flowing through all their rooms,
durch alle Räume verlaufen lassen,
made it into a projection,
auf dem Boden.
in Krankenhäusern machen,
angenommen fühlen.
is make every Parkinson's patient
Parkinsonpatient so fühlen kann,
an diesem Tag gefühlt hat.
like his old self again.
endlich wieder wie er selbst.
has become synonymous to high tech,
ein Synonym für "High-Tech"
smarter and smarter day by day.
von Tag zu Tag "smarter".
that's simple and yet effective?
Einfaches und doch Effektives sein?
and some curiosity,
ist etwas mehr Empathie und Neugier,
Don't be scared of them.
und haben keine Angst vor ihnen.
into much smaller problems,
kleinere Probleme auf,
denn so bekommen wir neue Erkenntnisse.
if we all came up with simple solutions.
Lösungengsvorschlägen erreichen?
if we combined all our simple solutions?
unsere einfachen Lösungen kombinieren?
but with simplicity.
aber einfachere Welt.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mileha Soneji - Product designerMileha Soneji believes that having empathy and being able to put yourself in another person's shoes is what makes for great design.
Why you should listen
Mileha Soneji is a trained strategic product designer, originally hailing from the city of Pune in India. She currently works in the Netherlands as a strategist. Her work entails combining the fuzzy front-end of the design process with emerging technologies to answer the question of what needs to be designed in the future.
Even as a child, Mileha had a keen interest in (re)designing things around her, even though she had little knowledge about it as a profession. This led her to take up the Bachelor in Product Design at the MIT School of Design. After graduation, she got a couple of years of work experience in India, where she quickly realized that apart from the actual tangible design, a successful product needs a backbone of thorough research in user needs and market analysis. The need to study this further brought Mileha to Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to study Strategic Product Design for her Masters.
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