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Feb 17, 2019

How to Design Meaningful Products

If a product isn’t meaningful for people, no amount of great design will make it successful What is your purpose in life? What's mine? We humans don't exist to consume, swipe, buy, or use; we exist to live, to love, and to be human. So the products we make need…

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How to Design Meaningful Products
How to Design Meaningful Products

Published in UX Collective

·Aug 3, 2018

So long, User Experience… hello, Human Experience

I detest “User Experience.” Calm down 😮 I’m not hating on the field, on its practitioners (I am one), or on Don Norman, who invented the term back in the 80's. I detest “User Experience” the way Whitney Hess detests “Lean UX.” It’s specifically about the word “user” and the…

User Experience

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So long, User Experience… hello, Human Experience
So long, User Experience… hello, Human Experience

Published in Prototypr

·May 15, 2018

Privacy: A Quick Overview for App Designers

I feel like app designers’ attitudes on privacy have gone from 🤨 to 😒 & lately to 😳. It’s ok: 😌 here’s what you need to know. Summary (TL;DR) Privacy isn’t scary: it’s an opportunity to earn people’s trust. This is about how we handle personal data. Some data are…

Privacy

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Privacy: A Quick Overview for App Designers
Privacy: A Quick Overview for App Designers

Published in UX Collective

·May 7, 2018

Public Speaking: Four Habits for Anyone

People seem to think public speaking is reserved for the chosen few who possess a talent for it. Some of us are born with it, and the rest of us should just give up. I don’t agree. First, thinking that a great speakers are “just good at it” ignores the…

Public Speaking

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Public Speaking: Four Habits for Anyone
Public Speaking: Four Habits for Anyone

Oct 13, 2017

Online Privacy: The Absolute Basics

Dear Mom & Dad, I love you. I know you use the internet to buy things, send e-mail, check your Facebook, and watch porn (no judgments here!). That’s why I want to start a conversation with you about privacy, tell you why I think it’s important, and show you how…

Privacy

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Online Privacy: The Absolute Basics
Online Privacy: The Absolute Basics

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·Jan 10, 2017

How To Make Stuff People Love

A Design Framework for Sustainable Engagement — In the realm of human experience, it's clear that we are all looking to experience love, in one way or another. And love can be felt in any satisfying, empowering, meaningful experience we humans can have. True love can only come from healthy relationships, and if we want our products…

Design

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How To Make Stuff People Love
How To Make Stuff People Love

Published in Prototypr

·Sep 27, 2016

The Basics of Effective Journey Mapping

The Journey Map is known by many names, including Experience Flow, Customer Decision Journey, or User Experience Journey. Whatever we call it, each journey map is a story, and what makes stories effective makes journey maps effective, too. An effective Journey Map teaches us, is based on truth, and helps…

UX

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The Basics of Effective Journey Mapping
The Basics of Effective Journey Mapping

Apr 29, 2016

Lessons I Learned from Pixar’s Inside Out

A while back, I watched Pixar’s Inside Out again with my partner and her niece. A great film, it poignantly illustrates some important lessons about life and the power of empathy in a fun, subtle way. If you haven’t seen the movie, it tells the story of the emotional life…

Inside Out

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Lessons I Learned from Pixar’s Inside Out
Lessons I Learned from Pixar’s Inside Out

Oct 26, 2015

Why John Oliver Is Wrong About Emotional Intelligence

John Oliver makes fun of emotional intelligence in one of his segments; not in a witty, intelligent way, but in a bullying, ignorant way. It feels somehow out-of-character for the show that saved Net-neutrality. So, What’s The Problem? In this Last Week Tonight segment, John Oliver shows a clip that states this about Canada’s…

John Oliver

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Why John Oliver Is Wrong About Emotional Intelligence
Why John Oliver Is Wrong About Emotional Intelligence

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·Sep 22, 2014

Emotional Objects and Why We Love Them

We respond emotionally to many aspects of physical objects. Here are three that digital things still don’t have. I got a thank-you note in the mail today. A couple of great friends sent it after crashing at my place in Amsterdam for the weekend. They could have sent an e-mail, or a Facebook message, or an SMS, or a…

UX

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Emotional Objects and Why We Love Them
Emotional Objects and Why We Love Them
Brian Pagán 🧠+💚

Brian Pagán 🧠+💚

I use (digital) design & art to make the world more equitable & loving. 📖 creativeempathy.eu; 💼 thegreatness.studio; 🎙️ mindfolkpod.com (he/they) ☕️🥑

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