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Build the technology you can be proud of.
Eating disorders, delayed child development, suicides. Human downgrade, the downfall of democracy, the end of truth.
As our screen time increases, our mental health issues scale and our society pays the price. It’s time for us technologists to take responsibility.
It’s time for us to be part of the solution.
During recent years we’ve testified the amazing improvements technologies brought to our lives. Today the ways we can connect with each other, produce and consume has never been so easy: from Uber rides and remote work to the empowerment of oppressed groups.
But this coin has another side: the exploitation of our attention and abuse of our human vulnerabilities. And the list of consequences of these unethical practices is long.
On the society level, we have the rise of extremist groups, the spreading of hate, oppression, fake news, ideological polarity, elections hacking, digital colonialism. On the individual level, we have technology addiction, cyberbullying, memory and attention deficits. Decreasing of quality of sleep, self-esteem and well-being, and increasing of narcissism, depression, anxiety and loneliness.
We could go on and on with this list, but you are aware of at least some of these issues. And since you are here, there’s a good chance that you also want to do something about it. But where should we start? And what can we do as technologists?
I want to share with you a tool to help you become part of the solution.
Human
Flourishing
Design Guide
Human
Flourishing
Design Guide
The Human Flourishing Design Guide will assist you into making design decisions that support human flourishing.
- Scientifically accurate
- Evidence-based
- Simple and intuitive
- Make global or one-off decisions
- Apply it to business model design and non-tech design practices too
- Compatible with any development methodology
- Applicable to any workflow
- Zero learning curve
- Immediate applicability
- For individuals or teams of any size
Hi, I’m Henrique Ibaldo, designer and psychology MBA. As a designer, I was always moved by the wish of doing good. After over a decade serving the design and tech industry as a designer and creative director, I enrolled in a psychology post-grad to acquire a deep understanding of well-being and human development.
The HFDG is the final work of my study at PUCRS, one of the best higher education institutions in Latin America. I had the opportunity to study with some of the greatest minds in psychology today, like Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csiksentmihalyi, Robert Kegan, Paul Zak, Daniel Goleman and Corey Keyes.
Taking an evidence-based approach, I found in the psychology of well being the scientific foundation to guide our technology design decisions.
More precisely, the HFDG is based on Martin Seligman’s PERMA model of well-being and flourishing, the VIA Character Strengths and Virtues classification, and it is inspired by practices of positive psychology therapy and interventions.
I knew from my own experience as a designer that, in order to be adopted, the guide should be compatible with the fast paced methodologies of contemporary tech development (rapid development, lean methodology, design sprints, etc).
Therefore, the HFDG was designed as a pragmatic tool to helps us technologists to integrate all this science immediately and effortlessly into our work, with little to none learning curve.
The HFDG is distributed under Creative Commons copyrights, and you can download it for free by clicking the button below.
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