UW Design Community: Designing action with applied compassion

In the October UW Design Community session, we explored the differences between empathy and compassion—and why the difference might matter in our work as designers. The session also included a guided mindfulness practice and practical tips for incorporating compassion-driven practices into your daily design routine. Our guest, Trudy Watt, AIA NOMA, is a designer, educator and pragmatic optimist who builds platforms, programs and projects to maximize compassionate design-driven collaboration for equitable well-being and a more regenerative future. She is currently working to expand transdisciplinary life-centered design in higher education. Recordings

• Speaker slides (in Box):
  • Presenter slides
• Session videos (in Kaltura):
  • Video with captions
  • Video with captions and audio descriptions

Resources

• The Center for Compassion And Altruism Research And Education
• Book – Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
• Book – Awakening Compassion at Work
• Oxford handbook of Compassion Science

About UW Design Community

The UW Design Community is brought to you by the Center for User Experience and IT Connects. Together, we can realize meaningful results when it comes to our shared goals of increased engagement and efficiency, student satisfaction, employee productivity and making our digital campus easier to use. Join the UW Design Community by emailing uw-design-community+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu and join our Teams group. —Mary Cummins, Christine Anderson and Laura Grady, UW Design Community