#293 Designing for stress with Katie Swindler

This is an update to let you know that we have reached the end of Season 3. Have a great summer, and perhaps Per will see you at Camp Digital in Manchester, England, and perhaps James will see you at Web Summer Camp in Opatija, Croatia. 

S03E11 (#339). Karen Hawkins, accessible design practice lead at Level access and chair of the W3C ARRM group joins us to discuss accessibility and design systems. Design systems can really help improve accessibility, but in reality design teams often don’t know their exact respo ...  Show more

Special guest and design strategist Katie Swindler joins the program to discuss her new book, “Life & Death Design.” We explore how the products we design can more effectively empower people during acutely stressful situations. 

Stress is inevitable. It is going to happen to us throughout our lives no matter what we think of it. In this episode I talk about how to learn from stressful situations because most of the time stressful times are our biggest periods of grow and the times when we learn the mo ...

With our first episode, we tackle the Covid-19 pandemic question directly: how has it affected designers and the work they do? Our episode explores the changing nature of work from a designer's perspective. We also examine what it means to design during a pandemic - and how our a ...  Show more

Do you feel like the graphic design industry is driving you insane? Are you on the brink of burnout? It's no secret that the job can be high-pressure and demanding, but what happens when that pressure becomes too much to bear? 

You're not alone. 

Jo ...