“I can’t come up with any new ideas if all I do is exist in my own life.”
Empathy is the capacity to step into other people’s shoes, to understand their lives, and start to solve problems from their perspectives. Human-centered design is premised on empathy, on the idea that the people you’re designing for are your roadmap to innovative solutions.
All you have to do empathize, understand them, and bring them along with you in the design process.
by Mary Pearson and Jessica HimmerApplying these five principles will help your children become empathetic adults that are sensitive to the needs of others.Empathy is the ability to feel what another person is feeling. When you think of parenting …
When Occupy Wall Street and similar protests played out over the past year, the phenomenon looked familiar to Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal: He’s seen similar moral outrage over economic inequity expressed by monkeys and chimps. A…
Blogging on empathy without reference to a bit on Ashoka’s work will take out a tinge on letting African parents in on the world’s global reality on empathy. Here is why? Ashoka has mobilized the very best people from all over the world to …
More than twenty years ago, scientists made a breakthrough that altered our understanding of human behavior in fundamental ways: they discovered empathy. While observing a group of monkeys, they noticed that certain brain cells were activated…
