project /03 · team · press release
DXPBL
Designing with a community of 84 people in rural Yamaguchi, and deciding not to build them an app.
proof: I build close relationships with clients, and don't settle for band-aid solutions.
- role
- Team: I drove the pivot
- community
- 84 residents, 39 households
- place
- Sakate Settlement, Ato
- method
- Fieldwork, data, relationships
- 84residents
- 39households
- 2×engagement
- Best DXPBLaward 2026
The community
Eighty-four people across thirty-nine households, in an aging rural community in Yamaguchi. Small enough that every household matters statistically, and small enough that you can know people rather than survey them.
Why the transportation app was the wrong answer
Coming Soon
What we did instead
Coming Soon
Outcome
Coming Soon
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