Nodes of Design#71: Designing for Delight by June Mineyama-Smithson

Nodes of Design

MAMIMU (aka June Mineyama-Smithson) is a London-based artist on a mission to inject optimism into the world. Special lecturer at UAL, D&AD judge and speaker at YOOX Net-a-Porter, Design Manchester and Ladies, Wine & Design. Her bold joyful work has been featured internationally on ITV, Creative Boom, SCMP and Cow Parade Niseko.

In this episode, June shared great insights on how to design for delight and the process of crafting these patterns? We then discussed the different ways we can design for optimism, build great empathy with end-users, collect and combine different stories of emotions, and convert them into meaningful learnings.

Takeaways- How to design for delight, Building great empathy with end-users, Designing for optimism and safety.

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