FEATURE
Being Designerly: Be Empathetic
Successful designers routinely use empathy in human-centered design. They start with an understanding of the people they are designing for, by observing them and immersing themselves in their users’ environments. Designers then apply that deep understanding to design products and experiences that work for those users.
Be Empathetic!
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CREATIVITY
"The Onion" founder explains his strategy for sparking creativity
Many people feel motivated to create, but they don't know where to start. As a humorist and the longest serving editor-in-chief of The Onion, Scott Dikkers has spent decades honing his strategies for sparking creativity. In this interview, Dikkers discusses how to approach the creative process, overcoming its central challenges, and AI's role in the future of the artistic endeavor.
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Lifelong Curiosity and Creativity in Global Marketing
Jay Aquilanti is a Group Creative Catalyst Director in Disney Parks Experiences and Products and talks about his journey and his work. I echo his philosophy: "It's key to stay curious and in a growth mindset constantly. It seems silly, but being aware, or 'knowing' that you don't 'know stuff,' keeps you on a path of fresh thinking, builds your curiosity muscle and supports the path of being a life-long leaner.”
That's one way of being designerly!
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EMPATHY
How self-checkout kiosks may be making Americans lonelier
It's not often to see a NYPost link in Being Designerly, but this one was interesting, especially since most digital design allows for self-service. Something to think about...
A PlayUSA poll in April found that the majority of Americans prefer technology to interactions with human cashiers, but agree that the practice has decreased meaningful connections, social skills and empathy.
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Cognitive AI, AI Assistants, and Artificial Empathy
Artificial empathy allows AI to recognize and respond to human emotions, forging a connection that feels more authentic. The conversation explores the science and potential of this interesting concept.
This AI For All Podcast episode features Michelle Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO of Juji, a company that is building cognitive conversational AI technologies. Something to keep in mind as you hear her talk about the benefits of artificial empathy over real human empathy...
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UX
Innovation by Design 2023: The best best-designed products
The Product category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards honors the most innovative hardware and industrial design. This year’s winner, Microsoft’s Adaptive Accessories, is a line of 3D-printed programmable buttons and a mouse that allow people with accessibility issues to create customized control schemes for their computers and phones. Read more about the winner and the honorees.
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INCLUSIVE
Why AI needs more women
Liji Thomas shared her "Demystifying AI" presentation on LinkedIn. The second section, "Women in AI", (slide 32) has great content on the need for more women in AI and improve diversity, inclusiveness, and reduce bias in AI.
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TOOLS
UX/UI Product Design Roadmap
UX/UI Product Design Roadmap is a mind map outlining key design topics and skills along with brief introductions and additional resources.
Bookmarked!
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Design Bookmarks
Just what the name suggests - a big list of bookmarks related to design, neatly categorized. At the time of sharing, Information Architecture was missing - both as a category and in the site navigation / categories... That didn't hold me back from finding some new bookmarks!
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