Ethnography for Design introduces students to the basic research approaches that ethnographers and many anthropologists use to understand human experiences. Students will engage in hands-on exercises that reveal how knowledge is produced through interactive, first-hand data collection and analysis. This course covers core aspects of the ethnographic enterprise including interviewing, observing, and analyzing cultural artifacts. It will help students understand how anthropologists and ethnographers bring together data from different sources to solve problems and achieve greater empathy for people who hold different worldviews. Students will read ethnographies from various cultures to appreciate the benefits and challenges of ethnographic research. The course will consider important ethnographic issues including: ethics; the influence of the researcher in outcomes; autoethnography; emotional labor; decolonizing design; the quantified self; visual ethnography; ethnographic imaginings; and approaches to participatory design. The course aims to heighten students’ awareness of how everyday behavior often reinforces inequities or non-optimal designs of products and processes, and how ethnographic investigation may help forge a path toward social change.