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Inside the empathic brain
DF Researcher 07/01/2021User understanding is a key part of empathic design, but have you thought about what happens in the brain when we try to understand another person?
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Being in sync, being connected
DF Researcher 06/11/2020
We all know that the Covid-19 pandemic has affected many businesses globally and locally. When lockdowns and government restrictions were put in place, especially the food and beverage entrepreneurs globally needed to act quickly and find creative ways to survive the crisis.
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DESIGNBITES REPORT 2020 OUT NOW
Erika Perttunen 08/09/2020
Can you transfer empathy?
DF Researcher 03/09/2020Gaining a deep understanding of users has become important in technology development, helping designers provide useful and successful solutions for the users. Even though many methods developed for empathic design emphasize direct contact with the user, it is seldom efficient for the whole development team to meet the user.
Catching emotions
DF Researcher 12/05/2020A newborn begins to cry, inducing her neonatal neighbors to join in an ensemble of high pitch cries. A few years later, that child runs to hug her classmate in pain. As a teenager, she enjoys hanging out with her friends. Sometimes she laughs with them, even though she is not sure what they are laughing about. A few years later, this teen is a professional designer interviewing a user for the first time. Her colleagues say she is good at building an “emotional connection” with her clients. She cannot tell for sure why, but she feels she connects with the emotions of others and can sometimes experience on her flesh the sensations and feelings described by someone else.
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Pressing COVID-19 pandemic: an acid test of creativity in the food and beverage industry
Maria Mikkonen 07/04/2020Product development is a team sport in small food and beverage companies, requiring creative collaboration efforts between entrepreneurs and their stakeholders. As the epidemic continues to stir the marketplace and ways of working, rapidly created novel and rebranded products, sales channels and market positioning are emerging in response to the ongoing crisis.
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We have started to measure what the user is thinking and it has given us quite a surprising result: we understand them up to 50%. This is significant. We tend to believe that when we talk to users and spend time in their environment, we get good user understanding.
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