Jessica Helfand, Ellen McGirt|Audio
December 8, 2020
S8E9: Kat Vellos
Kat Vellos is a UX designer, facilitator, and connection coach, and the author of We Should Get Together.
Vellos sees laying out the pages of an alt-weekly or designing a digital app as the same craft as facilitating meaningful conversations that lead to more durable connections or friendships:
As a facilitator, it’s about designing for the real-life, designing for experiences that human beings will have in a space, or at a certain space and time…
Whether it’s print, web, whatever, product, apps, you’re designing for an intention, which is what you want the person experiencing it to get to at the end. And so to me, it’s one and the same, and I describe it really as the art of intentionality — and that’s the practice.
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By Jessica Helfand & Ellen McGirt
Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey. jessicahelfand.com
Ellen McGirt is an author, podcaster, speaker, community builder, and award-winning business journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of Design Observer, a media company that has maintained the same clear vision for more than two decades: to expand the definition of design in service of a better world. Ellen established the inclusive leadership beat at Fortune in 2016 with raceAhead, an award-winning newsletter on race, culture, and business. The Fortune, Time, Money, and Fast Company alumna has published over twenty magazine cover stories throughout her twenty-year career, exploring the people and ideas changing business for good. Ask her about fly fishing if you get the chance.
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