Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
Mileha Soneji: Semplici strategie per una vita col 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.
ne hanno sentito parlare.
a lot of family events.
molti eventi di famiglia.
used to drag me to these family events.
mi trascinavano a questi eventi.
that I always looked forward to
non vedevo l'ora di fare
deteriorate in health.
sano e generoso deteriorare.
il morbo di Parkinson.
degeneration of the nervous system,
la degenerazione del sistema nervoso,
who used to be independent
che era indipendente
because of tremors, much more difficult.
come bere il caffè, a causa dei fremiti.
per camminare,
one step at a time, like this,
un passo alla volta, così,
the center of attention
al centro dell'attenzione
in people's eyes.
sguardo impietosito.
are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's,
a 60.000 persone,
solve these multifaceted problems,
quello di risolvere problemi complessi,
and eventually make a big impact.
alla fine un forte impatto.
to not cure Parkinson's,
curare il Parkinson,
much more simple,
molto più semplici,
was tremors, right?
erano i fremiti, ok?
drinking coffee or tea in public
di bere caffè o tè in pubblico
una tazza anti-versamento.
back inside every time they have tremors,
ogni volta che si manifestano i fremiti,
compared to a normal cup.
rispetto a una tazza normale.
as a Parkinson's patient product.
non è pensato solo per il Parkinson.
by you, me, any clumsy person,
da qualunque persona goffa,
for them to use, to blend in.
very superficial information,
informazioni molto superficiali,
alle mie domande.
to get a new perspective.
avere una nuova prospettiva.
let's observe him in his daily tasks,
nelle sue attività quotidiane,
observing him walking to his dining table,
verso il tavolo da pranzo,
so difficult to walk on flat land,
trovava difficile camminare su un piano
a fancy rail that takes you up a staircase
che ci conducono su per le scale
to reach this position,
per raggiungere questa posizione
without his walker?"
walk on flat land
camminare su un piano
it's because it's a continuous motion.
che è dovuto al moto continuo.
who also suffers from the same symptoms
ha gli stessi sintomi
this feeling of walking on a staircase
la sensazione di camminare sulle scale
were tested and tried on him,
was this one. Let's take a look.
è questa. Guardiamo.
abruptly ended, he froze,
all'improvviso, lui si è bloccato,
blocco del movimento.
flowing through all their rooms,
della scala a tutte le stanze,
soluzioni basate sull'uomo.
made it into a projection,
fare una proiezione,
sul pavimento.
negli ospedali
is make every Parkinson's patient
affetto dal Parkinson
like his old self again.
di nuovo se stesso.
has become synonymous to high tech,
sinonimo di alta tecnologia,
smarter and smarter day by day.
giorno dopo giorno.
that's simple and yet effective?
efficace non può essere brillante?
and some curiosity,
un po' di empatia e della curiosità,
Don't be scared of them.
Non dobbiamo averne paura.
into much smaller problems,
in problemi più piccoli,
falliamo se necessario,
if we all came up with simple solutions.
se trovassimo soluzioni semplici.
if we combined all our simple solutions?
but with simplicity.
ma con semplicità.
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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