{"id":8752,"date":"2019-04-24T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brainstation.io\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2019-04-26T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:19:15","slug":"6-tedtalks-lectures-every-professional-ux-designer-should-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/blog\/6-tedtalks-lectures-every-professional-ux-designer-should-watch","title":{"rendered":"6 TedTalks Every UX Designer Should Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to experts in design can help you look at your field from a fresh angle. But, with so many lectures, podcasts, tutorials, and talks, where do you start?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve compiled six TedTalks on design and user research that won\u2019t disappoint. Soak in the wisdom of these masters to help inspire your next project.<\/p>\n<h2>What Can We Learn From Shortcuts?<\/h2>\n<p>How do you build a product people really want? Allow consumers to be a part of the process. In this short talk, Designer Tom Hulme uses desire paths as an example of the intersection of design and user experience, showing how the user should be a collaborator in thoughtful, empathetic design.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/tom_hulme_what_can_we_learn_from_shortcuts\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Making a Car for the Visually Impaired<\/h2>\n<p>Roboticist Dennis Hong pushes user experience design to the extreme. His team created smart feedback tools enabling the visually impaired to make intentional decisions and drive independently. Listen to how user research helped them craft a perfectly tailored product.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/dennis_hong_making_a_car_for_blind_drivers\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>The Human Insights Missing From Big Data<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cRather than abstracting us further from human behavior, we need to think about how can we use data as a tool to actually bring that behavior into real life.\u201d Product Designer Rochelle King explains how data-driven decisions can have a huge impact on product success.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/tricia_wang_the_human_insights_missing_from_big_data\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>How Giant Websites Design for You (and a Billion Others, Too)<\/h2>\n<p>As a Designer, it\u2019s not about you, it\u2019s about the people you\u2019re designing for&#8230; even if that\u2019s over 1 billion people. Vice-President of Product Design at Facebook and user experience master, Margaret Gould Stewart, talks about what to consider when designing a global website.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/margaret_gould_stewart_how_giant_websites_design_for_you_and_a_billion_others_too\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>What Makes Technology so Habit-Forming?<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAbout 40% of what you do, day in and day out, is done purely out of habit.\u201d Stanford Professor Nir Eyal shares with us, \u201cthe hook,\u201d a design pattern that companies use to build habit-forming products.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/nir_eyal_what_makes_technology_so_habit_forming\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Happiness by Design<\/h2>\n<p>Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister dissects moments of his life that made him happy and shows us how many of those moments were inspired by good design. He\u2019s careful to make a distinction between design that represents happiness, and design that evokes happiness \u2013 the latter being more difficult to accomplish than the former.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"v3-single-content\">\n<p><em>Want to enhance your design skills? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/courses#design,on-campus\">BrainStation&#8217;s certificates<\/a> in UX Design, Design Thinking, User Interface Design, and Web Accessibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soak in the wisdom of these design masters to help inspire your next project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158,157],"tags":[111,856,857,190,112,122],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>6 TedTalks Every UX Designer Should Watch | BrainStation\u00ae Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We\u2019ve compiled six TedTalks on design and user research that won\u2019t disappoint. 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