Icons can represent negative and positive feelings.

How to creatively process a gamut of experiences

5 ways UX can help us navigate the daily emotional journey

Bonus: A link to free templates!

Pay attention to what makes us truly happy

Everyday, we go through a range of emotions and reactions. Events we experience can range from blissful to horrendous, exhilarating to negatively imploded.

Strive to reach for positive and happy experiences.

Being on zoom or video call for hours on end does not help our emotional states either. App feeding frenzies put us into delirious fantasies with no end, not supplying us with answers about how we really feel.

As a New Yorker, I relate to a vast spectrum of daily encounters. Many of my emotions are attached to human suffering in plain sight, homelessness, disease, violence. But also, lovely sights such as a beautifully hidden mini park with water fountains or the French café around the corner filled with aspiring literati who haven’t given up on penning words in a physical journal boost my sensory pleasure receptors enormously.

How can we process the world around us?