Human-centered design (and the closely related approaches of user-centered design and design thinking) is a practice-based approach to solving complex, ill-defined problems. Design offers structured methods for managing innovation. From a pedagogical point of view, human-centered design and related approaches argue that innovation is a skill that one can develop through repeated practice. Originally developed in the fields of engineering, software development, and commercial product design, human-centered design has more recently been applied to social challenges, healthcare, education, and diverse other fields. In this session, we invite conceptual and empirical contributions addressing the role that design theories, mindsets and practices can play in geoscience. Possible questions to address include: How can human-centered design inform stakeholder engagement and actionable science? How do we reconcile definitions of success in design (that often focus on open-ended iteration) with scientific definitions of analytic rigor? What insights does design offer for geoscience teaching and learning?

• NH - Natural Hazards