Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
Mileha Soneji: Soluções simples para os que têm o mal de 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.
meus pais me levavam a essas festas.
that I always looked forward to
deteriorate in health.
e bondosa adoecer e definhar.
degeneration of the nervous system,
do sistema nervoso.
who used to be independent
muito maior de tomar café.
because of tremors, much more difficult.
um passo por vez, assim:
one step at a time, like this,
the center of attention
ser o centro das atenções
in people's eyes.
are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's,
o diagnóstico de mal de Parkinson
solve these multifaceted problems,
projetos resolvam múltiplos problemas,
que resultem em um grande impacto.
and eventually make a big impact.
to not cure Parkinson's,
a cura da doença de Parkinson,
bem mais simples
much more simple,
was tremors, right?
foram os tremores, certo?
drinking coffee or tea in public
de tomar café ou chá em público
derramar o líquido,
sempre que acontecerem tremores,
back inside every time they have tremors,
as xícaras convencionais.
compared to a normal cup.
como produto para portadores de Parkinson.
as a Parkinson's patient product.
by you, me, any clumsy person,
por qualquer pessoa desajeitada
para fazer misturas de bebidas.
for them to use, to blend in.
há muitos outros ainda.
e lhe fazia perguntas,
very superficial information,
informações muito superficiais,
para as minhas perguntas.
para obter uma nova perspectiva.
to get a new perspective.
let's observe him in his daily tasks,
em suas tarefas diárias,
enquanto assistia a TV.
observing him walking to his dining table,
até a mesa de jantar,
so difficult to walk on flat land,
que andava com dificuldade no plano
a fancy rail that takes you up a staircase
como nos países desenvolvidos.
to reach this position,
sem usar o andador?”
without his walker?"
walk on flat land
andar em piso plano
it's because it's a continuous motion.
que era por ser um movimento contínuo.
sintomas e que usava um andador,
who also suffers from the same symptoms
porque fazia um movimento contínuo.
this feeling of walking on a staircase
de andar em uma escadaria
were tested and tried on him,
e testei muitas ideias
foi esta. Vamos vê-la.
was this one. Let's take a look.
acabou de repente, ele parou.
abruptly ended, he froze,
da escadaria em todos os cômodos,
flowing through all their rooms,
nem sempre é a solução.
centradas nas pessoas.
made it into a projection,
ou um Google Glass, ou algo assim.
is make every Parkinson's patient
com o mal de Parkinson
que recuperara seu antigo ego.
like his old self again.
has become synonymous to high tech,
sinônimo de alta tecnologia
smarter and smarter day by day.
cada vez mais inteligente.
that's simple and yet effective?
o que é simples e eficiente?
and some curiosity,
de empatia e um tanto de curiosidade,
Don't be scared of them.
Não se assustem com eles.
a problemas bem menores,
into much smaller problems,
fracassem se for o caso,
para fazê-las melhor.
if we all came up with simple solutions.
se todos nós inventarmos soluções simples.
if we combined all our simple solutions?
todas as nossas soluções simples?
but with simplicity.
porém usando a simplicidade.
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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