About*

My name is Roberto Razo, I’m from Mexico, currently living in Puebla. I had been involved with instructional design since I was studying my undergraduate program in Information Design. 

I find a passion in the relation between Education and Design using interactive technologies as a medium to relate people with content, through experiences that can take them to reach knowledge.

I'd being designing and producing interactive materials for large display touch boards that shows animated information as feedback to the students actions.

As a PhD program I choose to study education and it was in that journey that I discovered the importance and power of virtual spaces in educational experiences.

The reason I’m interested in instructional digital experiences is because I’m confident of the potential of video games as a medium to develop different kind of knowledge's by a broad types of experiences.

I’m also familiar in teaching the design process for detecting opportunities and needs in real contexts that can find in this digital interactive platforms a way to be approach and to contribute to a solution.

In the past years I’ve been working in different ways to engage design students in the qualitative research process that helped them to understand a user and he’s context but also to understand the importance of this approach.

As a example of this, my PhD project was a video game prototype in which students learn a conceptual model to follow during an interview and which type of questions can give you more quality information. 

All this idea emerged from the concern to involve students in the first phase of the Design Thinking process and as I say previously, not only as a must do step but as a must do engage with the user.

I'm also interested in Serious Games as powerful experiences that can be designed to create empathy between the user and specific topics that need to be addressed in certain context with social needs. My experience in this field can be seen as advisor in projects related with topics like: sexual harassment, sexual trafficking networks, gender violence and femicides, migration, among others.