Designing with Empathy [Code & Creativity 2014]
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The document discusses the importance of empathy in design, emphasizing that good design goes beyond decoration and focuses on problem-solving. It highlights how design should be user-centered, considering various perspectives and avoiding unnecessary barriers. The text also includes references to ethical principles found in various religions, stressing the importance of understanding and sensitivity to others' experiences.
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keeps the design open to
the possibilities of sexiness
in opportune contexts,
rather than starting with
the ‘whole’ experience that
must be compromised.”
– Ben Hoh
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Designing with Empathy [Code & Creativity 2014]
- 2. Photo Credit: Stuck in Customs
- 4. Design ≠ Art _ Photo Credit: faith gobleImage Credit: L.e.e
- 5. Art serves the Artist Photo Credit: Abby Lanes
- 6. I’ve been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration—likely because so much bad design simply is decoration. Good design isn’t. Good design is problem solving.” – Jeffrey Veen “
- 7. de·sign /dəˈzīn/ To devise for a specific function or end Classical: To indicate Medieval Latin: designare, to mark out
- 8. David Carson has been called “the most influential graphic designer of our times” Photo Credit: © Marc Eckardt for FontShop, Berlin.
- 11. It was Art
- 12. It was Ego
- 13. subjective, personal, and self-indulgent” Photo Credit: © Marc Eckardt for FontShop, Berlin. “
- 14. Your ego is a bad designer.” – Christopher Butler “
- 20. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should Photo Credit: harald walker
- 21. Design isn’t about showing off Photo Credit: Laurence & Annie
- 22. em·pa·thy /ˈem-pə-thē/ From the Greek empathia meaning “state of emotion”
- 23. em·pa·thy /ˈem-pə-thē/ The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another … without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
- 24. Perspective is everything Photo Credit: ZeroOne
- 25. em·pa·thy /ˈem-pə-thē/ The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another … without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
- 26. em·pa·thy /ˈem-pə-thē/ The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another … without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner Also: the capacity for this
- 28. Photo Credit: Horia Varlan
- 29. Photo Credit: schoschie Author appropriate content
- 30. Set a performance budget Photo Credit: Gunnar Ries
- 31. Photo Credit: lastquest Consider physical limitations
- 32. Photo Credit: andrechinn Don’t create unnecessary barriers
- 33. Credit: XKCD Don’t force your agenda on your customers
- 35. What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary. –Judaism Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. –Christianity No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. –Islam The Golden Rule Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find harmful. –Buddhism
- 37. [Progressive enhancement] keeps the design open to the possibilities of sexiness in opportune contexts, rather than starting with the ‘whole’ experience that must be compromised.” – Ben Hoh “
- 38. Egalitarianism Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome
- 40. Designing with Empathy by Aaron Gustafson @AaronGustafson Further reading: http://is.gd/readlist_empathy Slides available at http://slideshare.net/AaronGustafson This presentation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 except where otherwise noted flickr Photo Credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarongustafson/galleries/72157633153882514/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarongustafson/galleries/72157633161513316/