010 - You’ve designed and launched a shiny new product. Engagement is high. Your company hits the success metrics. Everyone celebrates. But deep inside, you’re still questioning whether your design is actually making people’s lives better.

In this episode, James Breeze, Chief Experience Officer, at Objective Experience, shares his ongoing work on a framework he’s designed to help makes designers be more conscious of the impact of their work on humans and the planet and make better decisions. The framework includes Consciousness Competencies, a set of values and behaviours designers can use to improve their lives and the lives of those around them and the planet.

James believes that people working in Human-Centred Design must be highly conscious and compassionate, skills that can and must be learned, just like any other design skill. James also shares his story of becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand and how that shaped his world view and his mission to improve human lives.

In this episode:

• From a monk to an entrepreneur
• Getting hired as a junior designer
• Challenges of aligning your values with your work
• Speaking up for ethics in design using data
• Why compassion is more important than empathy?
• Bringing more consciousness into your work
• Gathering the courage to talk about feelings
• And much more!

Contact James Breeze at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbreeze/

Objective Experience
https://www.objectiveexperience.com/

Steven Kotler
https://www.stevenkotler.com/

Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57878026-flow

Illustrations by Isa Vicente
https://www.instagram.com/isadezgz/

Music by Brad Porter
https://prtr.co/

Episode edited by Niall Mackay
https://sevenmillionbikes.com/