What if we approached design as a gift instead of problem solving? We are living in a time and place of enormous prosperity, rapid innovation, and staggering communication capabilities. And yet, loneliness and narcissism are being identified as the defining epidemics of a generation. As businesses help us optimize our lives, we enable them to monetize nearly every aspect of our diminishing "downtime." In this class, we will identify maladaptive behaviors to technology and why we exhibit them, discuss ways to integrate wholeheartedness and vitality into our design values, and create experiences based on extremely specific social and emotional needs. Blending multidiscipinary techniques from interaction design, game design, service design, and narrative design (among other crafts), we will measure impact by gratitude.

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