Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
Mileha Soneji: Des trucs simples pour vivre avec 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.
déjà entendu parler.
a lot of family events.
d'événements familiaux.
used to drag me to these family events.
me traînaient à ces réunions de famille.
that I always looked forward to
réjouissait toujours,
nous amusions comme des fous.
deteriorate in health.
forte et cordiale se détériorer.
degeneration of the nervous system,
la dégénérescence du système nerveux,
who used to be independent
qui était indépendante,
because of tremors, much more difficult.
comme boire du café,
un déambulateur pour marcher,
one step at a time, like this,
après l'autre, comme ceci,
the center of attention
l'attention sur elle
in people's eyes.
de compassion des gens.
are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's,
de Parkinson sont diagnostiquées,
solve these multifaceted problems,
projets résolvent ces problèmes complexes,
qui les résoudrait tous,
sur des problèmes simples
and eventually make a big impact.
peut-être une grande importance.
to not cure Parkinson's,
de soigner les malades de Parkinson,
much more simple,
bien plus simple,
was tremors, right?
a été les tremblements.
drinking coffee or tea in public
de café ou de thé en public
renverse pas.
à sa forme.
back inside every time they have tremors,
vers l'intérieur à chaque tremblement,
compared to a normal cup.
à une tasse normale.
as a Parkinson's patient product.
comme produit pour malades de Parkinson.
by you, me, any clumsy person,
vous, moi ou toute personne maladroite,
for them to use, to blend in.
de l'utiliser, pour s'intégrer.
very superficial information,
qu'une information superficielle,
à mes questions.
to get a new perspective.
pour avoir une autre perspective.
let's observe him in his daily tasks,
dans ses gestes quotidiens,
observing him walking to his dining table,
marcher jusqu'à sa table,
so difficult to walk on flat land,
très difficile de marcher sur du plat,
a fancy rail that takes you up a staircase
sur rail qui puisse vous monter
to reach this position,
pour arriver là,
without his walker?"
sans déambulateur ? »
walk on flat land
marcher sur du plat
it's because it's a continuous motion.
que c'est à cause du mouvement continu.
who also suffers from the same symptoms
des mêmes symptômes
il monte sur son vélo,
this feeling of walking on a staircase
ce sentiment de monter un escalier
were tested and tried on him,
ont été testées sur lui.
was this one. Let's take a look.
a été celle-ci. Regardons.
abruptly ended, he froze,
abruptement, il s'est figé,
flowing through all their rooms,
de l'escalier dans toutes les pièces,
toujours la solution.
prévues pour l'humain.
made it into a projection,
par projection,
ou un truc comme ça.
dans les hôpitaux
is make every Parkinson's patient
chaque malade de Parkinson
mon oncle ce jour-là.
like his old self again.
senti comme il était autrefois.
has become synonymous to high tech,
un synonyme de haute technologie,
smarter and smarter day by day.
« smart » chaque jour.
ne peut-il pas être simple et efficace ?
that's simple and yet effective?
and some curiosity,
d'empathie et de curiosité,
Don't be scared of them.
N'en ayons pas peur.
into much smaller problems,
qu'ils deviennent bien plus petits,
échouons si besoin,
pour s'améliorer.
if we all came up with simple solutions.
ensemble avec des solutions simples.
if we combined all our simple solutions?
combinions toutes nos solutions simples ?
but with simplicity.
mais avec de la simplicité.
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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