Behavioral design in a new age realm
I recently stumbled across a post on a compellingly named site “Human Design Consulting & Certification”, expecting the pieces to be in the design and technology field, and was surprised the strong point of view leaned much closer to life-coaching of the spiritual kind. Despite this, thinking fondly of Adam’s client Ascend and all of the warm-feeling, thought provoking sessions emanating from our then shared-office battle-station. I found myself so compelled by one piece [INSERT LINK https://www.humandesignlifecoaching.com/blog/2022/3/9/the-science-of-differentiation-being-a-human-design-scientist-part-1 ]that I nearly picked up a pen to attempt redrafting the same prompt, expecting the outcome to be something next to plagiarized, with the economics bits changed to ux design and/or consulting.
Upon further reflection, I came to realize that the very formulas used with various opaque Official Metaphysical Names for Variables, is exactly how we write open ended questions for user research in behavioral design. Heck, even my professional career ‘focus track’ is in Human-Centered Design. [LINK TO LINKED IN CREDENTIAL]
This section about the LENS METAPHOR that I feel strongly about, tie it into the original google search seed around the human design system, and the science of differentiation https://www.humandesignlifecoaching.com/blog/2017/2/17/how-to-know-your-ideal-work-identity-and-direction
I had been stewing on this idea of “knowing my design story”, a concept I was well taught back in college but have lost practice in. Scrolling and clapping my way through medium articles [could link https://uxplanet.org/whats-your-design-story-2bc98c1620a0 ] and chewing on ideas like using myself as the metaphor of my own UX of me [LINK https://medium.com/mikewcurtis/introducing-the-you-design-system-design-the-ux-of-you-67f4f8e6b645 ]
A further argument/direction for this piece could be questioning the baseline of the question ‘what is practicing science’ and reminding of behavioral science and psychology, as well las design and visual literacy as an extension of the sciences. Hello! It’s STEAM! Using narratives and storytelling is even shown to be more effective in communicating with non-expert audiences than high-brow, logical explanations. [ SOURCE https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183170/ ]
https://www.humandesignlifecoaching.com/