Design is powerful – it can generate excitement, bring joy, provoke anger, or trigger anxiety, sometimes all in the same interaction. From the big decisions about a product’s purpose all the way down to the myriad pixel-level arguments lost and won, designers have a great responsibility to safeguard the happiness of the users we serve. But what do we really know about the nature of happiness? And how can we actually make everyone happy?
In this talk, Kathi Kaiser (Co-Founder & COO, Centralis) deconstructs the concept of “happiness” and offer designers a framework for considering the emotional impact of their work. She explores the meaning, dimensions, and pre-conditions of happiness while examining the wide range of satisfying outcomes and their implications for design. Drawing on recent research in psychology as well as real-world design examples, you’ll learn when and how to evoke joy, humor, reassurance, comfort, and other positive feelings through applying a set of guiding principles for the pursuit of happiness.
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How Designers Can Make the World a Happier Place
1. How Designers Can Make the World a
Happier Place
UXPA Boston 2018
Kathi Kaiser
Centralis
@kathikaiser
@Centralis_UX
2. Can designers make the world happier?
@kathikaiser @Centralis_UX
What We’ll Talk About
If yes…
(hint: it’s yes)
3. What types of happiness can we design for?
When should we design for different types of happiness?
And how do we do it?
@kathikaiser @Centralis_UX
What We’ll Talk About
4. Think of a moment in the past week
when you felt happy
Let’s get started
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5. What made me happy this week:
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6. What makes me Happy In Life:
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9. Psychology and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Historically, the field of psychology did not concern
itself with happiness.
10. Psychology and the Pursuit of Happiness
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The belief was, our genes
set our happiness...
…and thanks to
hedonic adaptation,
we’re never satisfied.
11. Then came positive psychology
“We believe that a psychology of positive
human functioning will arise that achieves a
scientific understanding and effective
interventions to build thriving in individuals,
families, and communities.“
-Martin Seligman and
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Psychology and the Pursuit of Happiness
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12. Where does happiness come from?
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50% “Set Point” -
Genetics
Lyubomirsky, S, Sheldon, K.M., & Schkade, D. (2005). Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable
Change. Review of General Psychology, 9, 111- 131.
13. Where does happiness come from?
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50% “Set Point” -
Genetics
10% circumstances
Lyubomirsky, S, Sheldon, K.M., & Schkade, D. (2005). Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable
Change. Review of General Psychology, 9, 111- 131.
14. Where does happiness come from?
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Lyubomirsky, S, Sheldon, K.M., & Schkade, D. (2005). Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable
Change. Review of General Psychology, 9, 111- 131.
50% “Set Point” -
Genetics
10% circumstances
40% intentional activities
15. Where does happiness come from?
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50% “Set Point” -
Genetics
10% circumstances
40% intentional activities
Half of what
makes us happy
can be impacted
by design.
@kathikaiser @Centralis_UX
20. Can we make people happier?
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Yes!
Designers can make people happier every day
by delivering more frequent positive affect,
and less frequent negative affect.
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21. Can we make people happier?
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Ok, great!
(But how?)
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22. A Framework for Happiness
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Camaraderie
Exhilaration
Comfort
Achievement
28. Dimensions of Happy Interactions
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Dimension #2:
Abandon
“You want the water to be nice
and warm and you want your
beer to be cold. And that’s the
perfect day, right there.”
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Agency
Engagement
Mastery
“I can do this,
and it’s AWESOME.”
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Agency
Engagement
Mastery
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Agency
Engagement
Mastery
Design Principles:
+ Introduce features over time
+ Progressively increase skill level needed
+ Provide feedback
33. Agency
A Framework for Happy Interactions
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Efficiency
“Mission accomplished!”
Accomplishment
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A Framework for Happy Interactions
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Accomplishment
Efficiency
Design Principles:
+ Be comprehensive
+ Be transparent
+ Communicate tradeoffs
+ Use design conventions
+ Minimize steps
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Abandon
Efficiency
“Thank goodness THAT’s done!”
Completion
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Abandon
Efficiency
Completion
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Abandon
Efficiency
Completion
Design Principles:
+ Establish trust
+ Communicate only what’s necessary
+ Use design conventions
+ Minimize steps
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Abandon
Engagement
“Wow, that is amazing!”
Discovery
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Abandon
Engagement
Discovery
41. A Framework for Happy Interactions
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Abandon
Engagement
Discovery
Design Principles:
+ Lead with content
+ Build on prior knowledge
+ Use interaction to support, not detract
+ Have fun!
42. Agency
A Framework for Happy Interactions
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Abandon
Efficiency Engagement
Mastery
DiscoveryCompletion
Accomplishment
Design for the
appropriate happiness goal,
moment by moment and
context by context.
43. Subjective well-being =
+ frequent positive affect (little “happy”)
+ infrequent negative affect
+ high life satisfaction (big “Happy”)
In Summary
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