{"id":194,"date":"2017-11-21T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-11-21T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T18:04:59","slug":"what-happened-to-empathetic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/what-happened-to-empathetic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 524 &#8211; What Happened To Empathetic Design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><em>My thoughts, questions, and concerns while reading \u201cWhat Happened to Empathetic Design\u201d\u00a0(Mattelmaki, Vaajakallio &amp; Koskinen, 2014).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">General Thoughts:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">I find it interesting that research is moving in the direction of considering emotion in design. In my experience, specifically with the company I currently work for, we are actually moving away from the \u201cgut feel\u201d or emotional response planning that we\u2019ve done in the past and focusing more on data and pure metrics to determine design methods.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">There seems to be significant ambiguity with designers trying to identify or relate to the ways or feelings of others. It seems like there is a cross between psychology and design, something I would have initially believed to be two very separate areas of expertise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">This article left me with the impression that designers will have to be a \u201cjack of all trades\u201d in the future, they require collaboration skills, they need to be able to relate and understand the emotional needs of others, while still being an expert in instructional design.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">A moment where it \u201cclicked\u201d for me, was when the author described how the designer must become an empathetic designer of their own (aka they need to trigger that part of themselves while doing activities like the one we did with the gift giving), to help put into context what it means to tap into those feelings, and ultimately determine how to use that in a design form.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Questions\/Concerns:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">If empathetic design is rooted in more face to face interactions, how can this live in an online world?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">How are user\u2019s emotions or feelings interpreted through writing instead? Does this mean that you can only achieve empathetic design if you use technology that enables visual interactions between the designer\/user?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">If you always do what the learner thinks they need or want, are you providing them a disservice if they \u201cdon\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know\u201d?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Mattelm\u00e4ki, T., Vaajakallio, K., &amp; Koskinen, I. (2014).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ezproxy.royalroads.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=93319826\">What happened to empathic design?<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Design Issues<\/em>,\u00a0<em>30<\/em>(1), 67-77<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts, questions, and concerns while reading \u201cWhat Happened to Empathetic Design\u201d\u00a0(Mattelmaki, Vaajakallio &amp; Koskinen, 2014). General Thoughts: I find it interesting that research is moving in the direction of considering emotion in design. In my experience, specifically with the company I currently work for, we are actually moving away from the \u201cgut feel\u201d or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/what-happened-to-empathetic-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LRNT 524 &#8211; What Happened To Empathetic Design?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}