Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
Mileha Soneij: Truques simples para uma vida com 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.
já devem ter ouvido falar sobre isso.
a lot of family events.
used to drag me to these family events.
arrastavam-me para estes eventos.
that I always looked forward to
pela qual eu ansiava
da nossa vida.
deteriorate in health.
sadia e amável deteriorar-se.
com a doença de Parkinson.
degeneration of the nervous system,
a degeneração do sistema nervoso,
who used to be independent
outrora independente.
because of tremors, much more difficult.
de repente,
devido aos tremores.
one step at a time, like this,
um passo de cada vez, assim,
the center of attention
ser o centro das atenções
in people's eyes.
de pena das pessoas.
are newly diagnosed with Parkinson's,
são diagnosticadas com Parkinson,
solve these multifaceted problems,
resolver estes problemas multifacetados,
and eventually make a big impact.
e eventualmente causar grande impacto.
to not cure Parkinson's,
a cura para a doença de Parkinson,
much more simple,
muito mais simples,
was tremors, right?
são os tremores, certo?
drinking coffee or tea in public
de beber café e chá em público
back inside every time they have tremors,
para dentro, quando ele tem tremores.
compared to a normal cup.
ao contrário de um copo normal.
as a Parkinson's patient product.
como um produto para doentes de Parkinson
by you, me, any clumsy person,
por mim, por vocês ou alguém desajeitado.
for them to use, to blend in.
passam despercebidos.
very superficial information,
a ter informações muito superficiais
to get a new perspective.
para ter uma nova perspetiva.
let's observe him in his daily tasks,
nas suas tarefas diárias,
observing him walking to his dining table,
a ir para a mesa de jantar,
so difficult to walk on flat land,
tanta dificuldade em andar em chão plano,
a fancy rail that takes you up a staircase
que nos levam ao cimo das escadas,
to reach this position,
para ficar nesta posição.
without his walker?"
sem o andarilho?"
walk on flat land
andar em chão plano
it's because it's a continuous motion.
é por ser um movimento contínuo.
who also suffers from the same symptoms
que sofre dos mesmos sintomas
é posto numa bicicleta,
continuo.
this feeling of walking on a staircase
esta sensação de subir as escadas
were tested and tried on him,
muitas ideias com ele,
was this one. Let's take a look.
resultou, foi esta.
abruptly ended, he froze,
acabou, ele paralisou.
flowing through all their rooms,
por todas as divisões,
muito mais confiantes?
a tecnologia é a resposta.
centradas no ser humano.
made it into a projection,
is make every Parkinson's patient
doente de Parkinson
se sentiu naquele dia.
like his old self again.
como nos bons velhos tempos.
has become synonymous to high tech,
tornou-se sinónimo de alta tecnologia,
smarter and smarter day by day.
a cada dia que passa.
that's simple and yet effective?
ser algo simples e eficiente?
and some curiosity,
de empatia e alguma curiosidade,
Don't be scared of them.
Não tenham medo deles.
into much smaller problems,
em problemas mais pequenos
soluções simples para eles.
falhem se necessário,
if we all came up with simple solutions.
se todos encontrássemos soluções simples.
if we combined all our simple solutions?
todas as nossas soluções?
but with simplicity.
mas com 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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