Brian Pagán (he/they) @brian@pagan.plus
Using art & (digital) design to make our world more equitable & loving. 🧠+💚
While #empathy can enrich any creative process, it can also reinforce unhealthy #bias. Let’s #co-create with the people we’re designing for!
👯♀️ https://d3e.co/sir2022
Check out the slides from our latest #CreativeEmpathy workshop for free tools & ‘dank’ memes 😅
There’s a partial solar #eclipse on Tuesday 25 October!
🌞 https://d3e.co/va
We can see it in the #Netherlands from around 11:08 until 13:03, with the peak @ 12:05. Just don’t look directly at it 😉
The 5 Es framework for designing a #conversation as an #experience 🤯 https://d3e.co/v5
Great post by @dastillman outlining each phase with practical tools & stories:
✨ Entice
🛬 Enter
⚡️ Engage
🛫 Exit
🔋 Extend
All design is behavioral design.
Change my mind 😃
🙏🏼 Thank you @fabrique for the inspiring evening about #empathy & #socialdesign!
The story: a creative team including Froukje Sleeswijk-Visser & Jeroen van Erp used #VR & dialogue to help youths, residents, & city gov to co-design neighborhood improvements in Eindhoven.
My key takeaways:
🙌🏼 For #social change, it’s usually more effective to mobilize the silent majority than to try to ‘turn’ a radicalized minority.
🧭 If you want something done & no one’s doing it, then start it yourself.
🌍 We #designers need to work more holistically, creating systems, rather than just products, services, or experiences.
Thank y’all for inviting me!
Ancestors whisper
ageless wisdom to us who
now listen and learn.
Which rites performed they,
who worshipped in this temple,
just above the sea?
Images: Kardaki Temple near Kerkyra, Corfu from 510 BC
Moments are like mezze: they’re best when we share them. 💚⛵️🙌🏼☀️
👋🏼 Hi! Do you know who created this #MVP diagram?
I’d love to write about it and want to properly cite its author. Thanks! 🙏🏼
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Quote: Oliver Goldsmith
Artwork (marker on tile): A Obra 21, Lisboa
Having trouble giving presentations into your webcam? Try this little #remote #publicspeaking #hack
📸 🐱
Gravel underfoot,
sunshine, and cherry blossoms.
Now is all there is.
🪨👣☀️🌳🧘🏽
Yay: my latest video is out! Watch me mess up slides, speech, & counting while giving practical #design tips for #privacy in #fintech apps.
🥳 https://d3e.co/seneca
Privacy is an opportunity for us to help people feel safety & trust. Let's shift our mindset 😃
#PrivacyByDesign
#EthicalDesign
Many thanks to Michelle Chibba and Seneca College for inviting me to give this guest lecture. It's a pity I couldn't give it live, but it's something 🙆🏽
The spring sun exclaims:
“Safety is an illusion.
Climb a tree today!”
Tiger & I send you our love 🙌🏼💚👋🏼
May you be safe, healthy, and happy this weekend!
"If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand."
FUCK - I forgot how great Star Trek VIII First Contact is
“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”
– Alice Morse Earle 🌈 🙌🏼🐈
Sending you #love from Plaza Weyler in Santa Cruz de Tenerife 💚👨🏻💻
May you be safe, healthy, & happy today!
Our jokes shape our culture, and our #culture shapes which behavior we accept.
In our upcoming #podcast episode, @ghadaalaa tells us how she's fighting for #genderequity by creating cultures of #love & psychological safety.
🎙️ The full episode will be ready soon!
“There is a sense that… you are not [in] the driver’s seat, that you are a passive observer. You must begin to understand what it is in your life that you can and cannot drive, and let what you cannot go.”
Today’s #Labyrinthos #tarot reading is more true than I was ready for. 
https://d3e.co/t2
Only 5% of Earth’s land is untouched by humans - everything around us has been designed by someone.
So let’s make sure we design to empower, not exploit. Let’s design for love, not fear. 🙏🏼 💚
Using art & (digital) design to make our world more equitable & loving. 🧠+💚
