Design Tool: Formative Research with Adolescent Boys

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“We remind him that he is the expert about his life. We are simply here to ask questions and learn.”A guide to conducting design research with adolescent boys, including one-on-one and group conversations. As with all guides in this series, this simple tool illustrates our use of formative, human-centered design research to generate insights that our team later analyzed as a group from the perspectives of our various disciplines: adolescent developmental science, socio-cultural anthropology, youth engagement, public health, and social marketing.