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Empathy Porn. And How To Avoid It.

  • Behavioral Science, Design, Empathy, Research Methods and Techniques, The Evolution of Research

Empathy. It’s critical that we use empathy in all of our design and innovation work to provide true value to people in order to make their lives better.

Article by Rich Nadworny
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Empathy Porn. And How To Avoid It.
  • Empathy is a critical tool for designers and innovators to create positive change in people’s lives when used productively, not self-indulgently.
  • Many organizations engage in “empathy porn,” in which they use empathy solely for their own self-fulfillment, which leads to gathering useless insights that sit unused on a digital shelf.
  • The ultimate goal of empathy in design and innovation should be to take action to improve people’s experiences and lead to the creation of something new that provides value to others.
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Can Human-AI Collaboration Enhance Empathy?

  • Contextual User Studies, Defining AI, Emotion, Empathy

Can artificial intelligence help people be more supportive of each other in online conversations?

Article by Marlynn Wei
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Can Human-AI Collaboration Enhance Empathy?
  • The author analyzes the recent study on the opportunity for open-ended, social, creative empathic discussions to benefit from feedback-driven, AI-in-the-loop writing systems.
  • Due to AI systems’ difficulty in comprehending complex human emotions and the open-ended nature of these jobs, such human-AI collaboration poses difficulties for more difficult, creative tasks, like carrying out empathetic discussions.
  • The author names a number of design opportunities and challenges when it comes to developing AI systems that support empathy.
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Conscious AI models?

  • Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Empathy, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas

If it looks like a duck…

Article by Daniel Godoy
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Conscious AI models?
  • The author uncovers what LaMDA and consciousness are, and how they correlate.
  • While exploring conscious AI models, there are a few things that need to be considered:
    • Conscious Access
    • Reflexive Processing
    • The Question of Reporting
    • Autonomy
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Building Delight in Your Design System

  • Accessibility, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Empathy, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas

There seems to be a pervasive idea that using systems to help your work will lead to everything being a homogenous, grey, functional, meh experience. But delight is important! So, how can we design our processes to make sure that delight is a key part in what makes your MVPs ‘viable’?

Article by Luke Murphy
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Building Delight in Your Design System
  • The author shares the edited version of the talk about design systems that he delivered to Design Matters in Copenhagen in September, 2022.
  • The author separates and explains the difference between “Deep Delight vs Surface Delight” in design based on the user experience of McDonalds.
  • The author explains the way the Kano model works (Noriaki Kano developed the Kano model back in the 80s that shows that customer loyalty is connected to our emotional responses to product features.
  • There are 5 types of delight according to Microsoft’s categorizations:
    • Playful experiences
    • Attractive experiences
    • Natural experiences
    • Personal experiences
    • Empowered experiences
  • The author gives tips on how to build delight into your system and how to make that delight repeatable by measuring it and not forgetting your (internal) users.
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Redefining Leadership Through Empathy

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Empathy, Employee Experience, Employment and Hiring, Human factors, Technology, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Indeed’s global head of UX operations uses this superpower to help others do their best work.

Article by Michaela Hackner
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Redefining Leadership Through Empathy
  • The author shares her story of how enbracing empathy instead of fighting against it helped her evolve into a stronger manager and leader.
  • The author unpacks the steps of how empathy helps shape Indeed’s operations strategy:
    • Understand where you’re at
    • Know where you’re going and how you get there
    • Invite more empathy in your work
    • Let empathy lead you
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To Keep a User, Sometimes You Have to Let Them Go

  • Accessibility, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Empathy, Employee Experience, Psychology and Human Behavior, Technology, Technology for the Common Good, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas
Article by Jesse Weaver
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To Keep a User, Sometimes You Have to Let Them Go
  • Assuming every problem is product-related drives a product-centric approach to fixing them but problems are more complex than simple fixes to content or features.
  • The author uncovers 2 ideas:
    • Not all cancels are created equal
    • Think: User-centered retention
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