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Life & Death Design: What Life-Saving Tech Can Teach Everyday Designers
June 3, 2020 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Katie Swindler
Katie Swindler
UX Strategist, Manager, Allstate Insurance Company
About the Speaker
Katie is a user experience strategist who writes and speaks on topics related to human-centered design. Originally educated as a theatre director, she brings a unique perspective to digital work. She believes that if brands wish to truly connect with consumers they must combine emotion and utility, storytelling and technology to fulfill real human needs.
Katie is an experienced presenter who has spoken on UX topics internationally at design industry events such as SXSW Interactive, IxDA Interaction, 4A’s, Amuse and PUSH.
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Life & Death Design
What Life-Saving Tech Can Teach Everyday Designers
Katie Swindler, UX Strategist, Manager | Allstate Insurance Company
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Stress changes the human brain, enhancing some abilities and degrading others. In some of the most dangerous industries, creators of life-saving products have discovered how to leverage brain science and smart design to harness good instincts while reducing panic and aggression. They use human-centered design to help their users land airplanes, avoid car crashes, resuscitate heart attack victims, and escape burning buildings. Apply their techniques to your work in any field to create clear, intuitive experiences that effectively guide the behavior of your users, no matter their state of mind.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn the secrets of designing for users under stress developed by practitioners in some of the highest-stakes industries like healthcare, avionics, and the military, but applicable for great design in any field.
- Unlock the science of the human survival instinct and learn how moments of peak stress change users’ physical and mental capabilities, affecting their ability to use certain types of designs.
- Apply techniques for identifying potential high-stress moments and crafting experiences that can harness the user’s instinctive behavior, suppress it, or protect the user from panicked-induced actions.
Read Katie’s thoughts about the Covid-19 Pandemic on her blog.
There is a video of this event. You must be a member and signed in to see CHIFOO videos.
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Speaker: Katie Swindler
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Life & Death Design
What Life-Saving Tech Can Teach Everyday Designers
Katie Swindler, UX Strategist, Manager | Allstate Insurance Company
@madamautonomous
Stress changes the human brain, enhancing some abilities and degrading others. In some of the most dangerous industries, creators of life-saving products have discovered how to leverage brain science and smart design to harness good instincts while reducing panic and aggression. They use human-centered design to help their users land airplanes, avoid car crashes, resuscitate heart attack victims, and escape burning buildings. Apply their techniques to your work in any field to create clear, intuitive experiences that effectively guide the behavior of your users, no matter their state of mind.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn the secrets of designing for users under stress developed by practitioners in some of the highest-stakes industries like healthcare, avionics, and the military, but applicable for great design in any field.
- Unlock the science of the human survival instinct and learn how moments of peak stress change users’ physical and mental capabilities, affecting their ability to use certain types of designs.
- Apply techniques for identifying potential high-stress moments and crafting experiences that can harness the user’s instinctive behavior, suppress it, or protect the user from panicked-induced actions.
Read Katie’s thoughts about the Covid-19 Pandemic on her blog.
There is a video of this event. You must be a member and signed in to see CHIFOO videos.
2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff
Smart Stuff
Alternative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence & Augmented InteractionsThis year we explore the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented interactions bring to our futures.
AI seems to be everywhere. It is an acronym fraught with implications and possibilities. We have an idea of what it means, but how do our smart devices know what we want? Who taught my car to parallel park? Is my home spying on me? It’s all very confusing. This year CHIFOO explores the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence and augmented interactions bring to our futures. We will take a deep dive into how smart devices, cars, and homes are changing our culture and even us, while exploring the interactions this new tech makes possible. The possibilities are exciting, inspiring, and at times unexpected. As professionals dealing with communication, interaction, and results we are at the center of this vortex of change, given the charge to provide solid solutions for an uncertain world. We are empowered by these new tools yet challenged by them as well. As the ones responsible for using it all, we must get up to speed on it all quickly.
This speaker series will explore the various ways these themes are playing out in our lives now while determining the potential for the future by examining specific applications of each. By understanding more about what the potential of how to best use the tools, we can provide better solutions in our own work, and create a more friendly world. Please join us for this exciting series.
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2019 Speakers and Events
Seda Evis
Seda Evis
Designer-in-Residence at University of California San Diego’s Design Lab
Seda Evis is a design strategist and a creative business leader with extensive experience in technology, operations, planning, design and design research. Her superpower is systems thinking in experience design and her hybrid mind, combining creativity and analytics, strategy and design, left and right brain. Her work results in new markets, products and concepts, services and organizations, with a focus on human experience and insights in a range of industries — technology, consumer goods, education, industrial, aviation and automotive/mobility. Seda is a Designer-in-Residence at University of California San Diego’s Design Lab. She’s also a board member at Design Forward Alliance, a non-profit that promotes human-centered design as a tool to help advance San Diego as a premier city for business, education, and enjoyment. Seda teaches Innovation and Design Thinking at University of San Diego’s Entrepreneurship Institute, also her alma mater.