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C11
The intervention failed because it was designed to change the wrong person — fixing students instead of institutions, training patients instead of redesigning devices, imposing solutions instead of understanding context.
Wrong-Stakeholder Design Failures Across Equity Contexts
13 problems across 7 domains · v3: 6 → v4: 7 → v5: 7 → v6: 13
Shared Structural DNA
These 13 problems share a failure mode that inverts what most designers expect: the intervention was designed for the wrong person. At 500 briefs, a core tag relaxation from `behavior-change` to `(behavior-change OR design OR systems-redesign)` unlocked 6 new members — assistive technology designed without disabled users, indigenous data platforms built on colonial frameworks, neurodivergent students assessed by neurotypical rubrics, emergency latrines built without accessibility. The wrong-stakeholder/equity pattern manifests through design and systems-level interventions, not just behavioral ones. The 'fundamental attribution error' framing remains among the most powerful reframings in the collection.
Assistive technology, patient-designed devices, maternal mortality, biomass fuel — health interventions designed without the patient's lived experience
Deaf science terminology, neurodivergent assessment, rural STEM teacher — evaluation frameworks that penalize non-dominant experience
Indigenous data sovereignty, refugee disability digital access — digital platforms built on frameworks that exclude the populations they serve
Urban food security, solar waste recycling — environmental interventions that ignore community context
Member Problems
Domain Spread