Last week, the winners of the UNICEF Wearables for Good challenge traveled to San Francisco, California, for a “design sprint” at the UNICEF Innovation Lab.
Devex caught up with the teams behind Khushi Baby and SoaPen — the two organizations awarded $15,000 for the social impact potential of their wearable and sensor products — to find out what winning the challenge means to them.
Both teams agreed that spending time at Frog, the product strategy and design firm that houses the UNICEF Innovation Lab, helped them put users at the center of their design ideas. Together with Frog, the design teams zeroed in on strategies to ensure wearable devices deliver real outcomes in low resource settings.
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Catherine Cheney is the Senior Editor for Special Coverage at Devex. She leads the editorial vision of Devex’s news events and editorial coverage of key moments on the global development calendar. Catherine joined Devex as a reporter, focusing on technology and innovation in making progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining Devex, Catherine earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, and worked as a web producer for POLITICO, a reporter for World Politics Review, and special projects editor at NationSwell. She has reported domestically and internationally for outlets including The Atlantic and the Washington Post. Catherine also works for the Solutions Journalism Network, a non profit organization that supports journalists and news organizations to report on responses to problems.