Design for Digital Wellbeing

New technologies and services have positively impacted people’s lives by bringing conveniences and entertainments, however they’ve also brought negative impact such as addiction, anxiety, low-efficiency and exhaustion. When various products and services are fighting for user’s attention, where do designers stand? How can we design for users’ wellbeing, while achieving the product and business goals?

At this workshop, the speaker will introduce the concept of digital wellbeing, how it relates to user experience, the methodology of designing for user wellbeing, with the examples from her working experience at LinkedIn and in Silicon Valley. Participants will be able to identify designs that hurt digital wellbeing, learn the methods and principles of designing for digital wellbeing.

This workshop will cover:

1. User wellbeing / digital wellbeing
1.2. What is user wellbeing? How is it different from user experience
1.3. Examples of designs that hurt user wellbeing
1.4. Construction of user wellbeing

2. How to design for user wellbeing
2.1. Information overload
2.2. Sense of acomplishment
2.3. Positive suggestions
2.4. Respect user’s subconscious and intuition
2.5. Attract attention vs Follow attention
2.6. Actively searching vs Passively browsing

3. A team for user wellbeing
3.1. How to balance product and business goals
3.2. Work with user researchers
3.3. Design process

1、Overview
2、Construction and concept of user wellbeing based on theories and real projects
3、Case studies: how to design for user wellbeing
4、Group exercise
5、Q&A

1、Interaction/User Experience/Full-stack designer at all levels
2、User researchers at all levels
3、Product managers at all levels
4、Design managers
5、Entrepreneurs
6、Other roles from the IT industry

1、Understand what is designing for user wellbeing
2、Learn principles and methods of designing for user wellbeing
3、Be able to bring a team together to improve user wellbeing