Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
מילהה סונגי': האקים פשוטים לחיים עם פרקינסון
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.
לארועים המשפחתיים האלה.
that I always looked forward to
deteriorate in health.
מתדרדר בריאותית.
degeneration of the nervous system,
התדרדרות של מערכת העצבים,
who used to be independent
because of tremors, much more difficult.
בגלל רעידות, הרבה יותר קשות.
one step at a time, like this,
the center of attention
in people's eyes.
are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's,
solve these multifaceted problems,
יפתרו את הבעיות המורכבות האלו,
and eventually make a big impact.
ולבסוף ליצור השפעה גדולה.
to not cure Parkinson's,
much more simple,
להרבה יותר פשוטות,
was tremors, right?
היה רעידות, נכון?
drinking coffee or tea in public
קפה או תה בציבור
back inside every time they have tremors,
חזרה פנימה כל פעם שיש להם רעד,
compared to a normal cup.
as a Parkinson's patient product.
שזה לא מתוייג ככוס לחולי פרקינסון.
by you, me, any clumsy person,
לי, לכל אדם מסורבל,
for them to use, to blend in.
מנחמת להם להשתמש, להתמזג,
very superficial information,
to get a new perspective.
כדי לקבל פרספקטיבה חדשה.
let's observe him in his daily tasks,
אני אתבונן בו בחיי היום יום,
observing him walking to his dining table,
הולך לשולחן האוכל שלו,
so difficult to walk on flat land,
כל כך קשה ללכת על אדמה ישרה,
a fancy rail that takes you up a staircase
שלוקח אתכם במעלה המדרגות
איך אני עושה את זה."
to reach this position,
without his walker?"
לעשות את זה בלי הליכון?"
walk on flat land
it's because it's a continuous motion.
שזה בגלל שזו תנועה מתמשכת.
who also suffers from the same symptoms
this feeling of walking on a staircase
את התחושה הזו של ללכת על המדרגות
were tested and tried on him,
was this one. Let's take a look.
abruptly ended, he froze,
הסתיימה פתאום, הוא קפא,
flowing through all their rooms,
לא תזרום בכל החדרים שלהם,
הם פתרונות שמתרכזים באדם.
made it into a projection,
is make every Parkinson's patient
זה לגרום לכל חולה פרקינסון
like his old self again.
has become synonymous to high tech,
smarter and smarter day by day.
that's simple and yet effective?
משהו פשוט ועדיין אפקטיבי?
and some curiosity,
זה מעט אמפתיה וקצת סקרנות,
Don't be scared of them.
לא נפחד מהן.
into much smaller problems,
לבעיות הרבה יותר קטנות,
כדי לעשות אותן טוב יותר.
if we all came up with simple solutions.
היינו מעלים פתרונות פשוטים.
if we combined all our simple solutions?
את כל הפתרונות הפשוטים האלו?
but with simplicity.
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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