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This episode is about the relationship between emotions and decisions. We discuss how emotions are the brains way of making decisions, where as an example "hot state" decisions are made at high emotional influence.

Think about your emotions like a cup with a tiny hole in the bottom, everytime something fules that emotion, you put a bit of "emotional water" in the cup, if the water fills into the cup faster than it empties, then at some point, the cup overflows. These hot state feelings anger, love, or happiness, which leads to unreflective actions. So, if its happiness, you will start laughing uncontrolably, and what you will see is all the funny things happening, that will keep filling the happy/funny cup.

Understanding emotions is crucial for designers that wants to create designs that resonate at a deeper level with users.

You will learn:


The brain is a predictability machine
Hot State - Cold state
What is a body budget
How we make decisions

References:

How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Why do we need to be great storytellers? And where does Storytelling fit into Design and user experience.

This is what we are talking about in this episode. By listning to this you will learn:


The difference between a layout and a Composition
Aristoteles story formula
How to use storytelling in your designs

Resources:

Simon Sinek - Ted Talk

Simon Sinek - Start With Why

Anthony Jeselnik

Studying aristotles poetics

Aristotles 7 Elements of Good Storytelling

Interaction Design - Storytelling

Screencast - Aristoteles six golden rules of storytelling

Design Ops is there to help Designers "Doing the job that matters"  

NNGroup defines the Design Ops as "The orchestration and optimization of people, processes, and craft in order to amplify design’s value and impact at scale."

As soon as more people works together, and groups start to form in companies, then the overhead and bureaucracy becomes a factor in the way that everyone works together. This slows things down and becomes a burden to everyone.

This is where the Ops role comes into play.

In this episiode of Hidden By Design, we are talking about what Design Ops is, and what it can do for your organization.

You will learn:


What Design Ops is
Why and When you need Design Ops
The 3 fundamentals of Design Ops

Thank you for listening to our podcast



Resources:

Nielsen Norman Group - Design Ops

Frog.com

Nothing is also something! And that is exactly what we are talking about in this episode of Hidden By Design. Most people are afraid of Whitespace, and in many cases that is a problem if you are a designer. This conversation will let you know the basics about whitespace, and some practical advice on how to use whitespace.


You will learn:


What Whitespace is
That nothing is also something.
Elements vs Global whitespace
Functional and Emotional whitespace



Resources:

Hidden By Design - The Laws of Gestalt

A Book of Lenses

5 Best Tips on How Using White Space in Design to Improve Better UX

The Power of Whitespace

Understanding the difference between simple and simplistic, is fundamental to being able to do great design. The second thing you should learn is that users dont care about your design! Once you have these two things in place, then it becomes easier to focus on the right things when designing.

Anyways, I think you should just listen to this episode, which I believe is one of the best we made so far.

In this episode you will learn


The difference between complex and complicated
The difference between the amount of clicks and the value of clicks
Why people do not care about your product or your features.



Resources:

Start with why - Simon Sinek

Living with Complexity - Don Norman

A while back, we asked around for everyones favourite designs and what good design meant to them. In this episode we go through some of the answers and have a discussion about that.

Thank you to all who contributed, it was really a pleasure reading and discussing all of this with you.