Leveraging Anxiety with Product Design
summary
Argues that anxiety shows up across spatial, social, technological and chronic-health contexts and gives concrete fixes: cite ~1 billion people with disabilities (15% of world) and 284 million with anxiety; follow WCAG 2.0 and a11y patterns; use design motion consciously and provide reassurance and confirmation in UI. Shows examples that work: IFTTT-style simplification, dark mode for contrast, Uber’s license-plate and screening signals, a Moonlight projector with two-level onboarding and a PuppySpot app using live feed and milestone notifications to reduce waiting stress.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 1:09interdisciplinary
- 1:23design systems
- 6:41Google Impact Challenge
- 6:51On the other hand chronical anxiety
- 8:53Design easy to complete and secure flows
- 9:10On the other hand temporary anxiety
- 11:47Moonlite
- 13:32PuppySpot
- 15:29Research and implement the standards.
- 15:46Empathize and try to understand users.
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