Unthinking Space (formerly Design Feeling)

#006 - We’re trained to leave our emotions at the doorstep when it comes to work but using emotions consciously and intentionally can make individuals and teams more creative, more motivated and happier. This is according to Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity. Zorana shares her insights on using different emotions for the divergent and convergent parts of a design process and how designers and facilitators can manage their and their team’s emotions to help them be more creative. We also talk about the benefits of acknowledging your feelings at work instead of hiding them. Zorana also shares her tips for bringing more emotional intelligence into your workplace as a leader, individual contributor or even someone starting a new role and how even a single individual can spread a positive emotion contagion by being the first one to embrace their emotions.

In this episode:

• The types of emotions needed for divergent and convergent thinking
• How and when to introduce constraints into a creative process
• Acknowledging and labelling feelings to relieve the pressure of hiding them
• Bringing emotional intelligence into work proactively
• Managing emotions in a new role
• Talking to co-workers about how you’re feeling
• Importance of rituals to begin and end meetings to prevent negative emotional contagion

Shownotes

Join the Design Feeling Fireside chat with Zorana on Thu 24th Feb 2022 2pm UK time
https://www.designfeeling.co/fireside/

Zorana's blog on Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/zorana-ivcevic-pringle-phd

Gravitational waves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

Emotional granularity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_granularity

Rituals for Work by Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41544270-rituals-for-work

Courage to Create by Rolly May
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646141.The_Courage_to_Create

Zorana's website
https://www.zorana-ivcevic-pringle.com/

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Zorana's Twitter
https://twitter.com/ZoranaPsych

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#005 - As designers, we are skilled at managing uncertainty within design processes but how well do we manage uncertainty within our own lives and careers? Atomic physicist, Kung Fu teacher and the co-founder of the Happy Startup School, Dr. Carlos Saba shares his journey of uncertainties and his biggest lessons trying to find his way around his life and career and how it’s ok to not know what you’re doing or where you’re going. He also talks about why knowing how to conduct transactional research with users doesn’t automatically make us good as empathising with people we are emotionally invested with. We also talk about the importance of clarifying your definition of success before setting out to achieve it and how prioritising fun could be a happier alternative when making your career choices.

In this episode:

• Viewing success as a feeling rather than an output or outcome
• The language of needs and being aware of your and others’ needs
• Embracing uncertainty with a beginner’s mind
• Prioritising fun when picking the people you want to work with

Shownotes:

Happy Startup School
https://www.thehappystartupschool.com/

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71730.Nonviolent_Communication

Sam Harris
https://www.samharris.org/

Waking Up App
https://wakingup.com/

Universe with Prof. Brian Cox
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ybnpd

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now

The Map of Meaning by Marjolein Lips-Wiersma
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15000685-the-map-of-meaning

Work with Source by Tom Nixon
https://workwithsource.com/

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#004 - We try hard to fit into groups, whether at work or in our personal lives. But in the process of fitting in, we forget to find out what’s unique about us and celebrate what makes us different. In this episode, I have a deep conversation with design leader, consultant and coach Jason Mesut on his struggles growing up and fitting in and how that shaped him and why he’s now passionate about helping designers find out about themselves through his series of tools called Shaping Design.

In this episode:

• Fitting into different communities as a designer
• Reading people and pairing them with the right work
• Helping people decode themselves
• Navigating uncertainties by understanding and framing different perspectives
• Legitimacy of design
• Using the career timeline map to look at the highs and lows of your career
• AND MUCH MORE

Shownotes

Alexander den Haijer

https://www.alexanderdenheijer.com/

Life calendar

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

Shaping design series

https://medium.com/shapingdesign/shaping-design-and-designers-intro-df9e78bf845f

Creating the perfect experience architect

https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designopssummit2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mesut-09.png

Blob Mapping

https://medium.com/shapingdesign/blob-mapping-4cda41bae61d

Career timeline map

https://medium.com/shapingdesign/map-your-career-timeline-85df3ea8a890

Year compass

https://yearcompass.com/

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be by Paul Arden

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114737.It_s_Not_How_Good_You_Are_It_s_How_Good_You_Want_To_Be

Organisations referred to by Jason:

Adaptive Path

https://medium.com/@adaptivepath

UXPA

https://uxpa-uk.org/

Foolproof

https://www.foolproof.co.uk/

Get 30% discount off Jason’s Shaping Design workshop and the pre-order of the book: Use the code “ifeeldesign” at

https://www.designfeeling.co/shapingdesign/

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#003 - How can you learn and grow continuously as a designer without burning out and veering too far from who you are? In this episode, I interview Kate Pincott who is a Design Coach, CEO and Founder of Remote Design Coaching. She’s on a mission to help designers get unblocked in their careers so that they can find their own design voice that the world desperately needs.

In this episode:

• Designer burnouts and value of stopping and reflecting
• Giving ourselves permission to experiment on our own lives and careers
• Finding coaches who you can be safely vulnerable with
• Setting intentions in our daily practice as designers
• Trusting your gut
• AND MUCH MORE to help you start off the new year more grounded in yourself!

Shownotes

Lean Loop, Lean mindset by Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup

http://theleanstartup.com/book

Mcinksey report - tangible ROI of design

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-design/our-insights/the-business-value-of-design

Kate’s Reality Prototype Program

https://www.realityprototyping.com/

Feelings wheel

https://feelingswheel.com/

Rumi (Persian poet) and Kate’s favourite Rumi book, the Masnavi: Book One

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83262.The_Masnavi

Go to www.designfeeling.co/kate to book a chat with Kate and enter the code “designfeeling” to get 10% of her Reality Prototyping Program

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#002 - Welcome to the first episode of the Design Feeling Podcast! Join designer, educator and host, Nirish Shakya, as he talks about what this podcast is about, why he started it and why it’s crucial for designers and design thinkers to focus on their own self-awareness, creative confidence and meaning.

As designers, we know our users and customers better than we know ourselves. But what about your needs, emotions and pain points as a designer? How do you ensure that what you do meet your deeper needs? How can you be more aware of the complex and unfamiliar human emotions determining your wellbeing underneath the familiar structures of our jobs? It’s time to recalibrate yourself as a designer and take agency back of your life and career.

In this episode:

• Bringing out focus from outside to inside
• Knowing yourself as a designer
• Why we can’t ignore human emotions at work
• What’s coming up
• A 5-min hack to help you stick to your new New Year habit

Shownotes

Chris Voss’s book, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the-difference

Coventry University

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/

Deakin University

https://www.deakin.edu.au/

Happy Startup School

https://www.thehappystartupschool.com/

Vipassana meditation

https://www.dhamma.org

Wing Chun Kung Fu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Chun

Meisner acting technique

https://acteach.uk/on-the-meisner-technique/

BJ Fogg’s book, Tiny Habits

https://tinyhabits.com/

James Clear’s book, Atomic Habits

https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

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001 - Oh no! Not another design podcast! That’s right, this isn’t. This show is not about design techniques or tools or even clients or users. This show is about you.

As designers, we often know our customers better than we know ourselves. In the midst of our passion for human-centred design, we tend to forget that there’s a human within us, a human with needs and emotions. And we go through our careers unfulfilled by the work we're doing and disillusioned by its impact or the lack thereof.

Design Feeling is a new podcast and community platform aimed at design thinkers, people gatherers, dot connectors, technologists and creative problem solvers who want to increase their self-awareness, creative confidence and meaning.

Join Nirish Shakya, Design Thinking Consultant, Educator and Coach, and his expert guests as they explore the human behind the human-centred designer. Their mission is to help you become a more empowered problem solver with a clearer mission for others and more compassion for yourself. It’s a mix of interviews, mentorship calls and solo shows from Nirish you’re not going to want to miss. Hit subscribe and get ready to deconstruct the designer in you.

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