TED: Tre sätt som bra design gör dig glad

TED: Tre sätt som bra design gör dig glad

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In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.

TED: Därför gillar vi att titta på sport

TED: Därför gillar vi att titta på sport

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Sure, sports are about athleticism — but what actually keeps fans invested? Journalist Kate Fagan takes a fascinating deep-dive into lesser-known moments in women’s sports history and its media coverage, revealing why stakes and storylines are at the heart of what makes sports riveting.

TED: Tre sätt som bra design gör dig glad

TED: Ett bra ledarskap är ett nätverk inte en hierarki

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What if leadership at work wasn’t for a select few, but rather shared among many? Management consultant Gitte Frederiksen gives us the recipe for ”distributed leadership” — dynamic, multidimensional networks of leaders that tap into everyone’s knowledge and creativity — and shows how it allows teams to do more and do it better.

TED: Tre sätt som bra design gör dig glad

TED: Därför blir vi arga och därför är det nyttigt

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Anger researcher Ryan Martin draws from a career studying what makes people mad to explain some of the cognitive processes behind anger — and why a healthy dose of it can actually be useful. ”Your anger exists in you … because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, an evolutionary advantage,” he says. ”[It’s] a powerful and healthy force in your life.”

TED: Därför gillar vi att titta på sport

TED: Det här kan du lära dig av de som inte håller med dig

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Youth leader Shreya Joshi diagnoses a key source of political polarization in the US and shows why having ”uncomfortable conversations” with people you disagree with is crucial to bridging the divide. ”When we are able to recognize what unites us, it becomes so much easier to have conversations about what divides us,” she says.

TED: Tre sätt som bra design gör dig glad

TED: Du vet inte vad ditt framtida jag vill

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”You are constantly becoming a new person,” says journalist Shankar Vendantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the ”illusion of continuity” — the belief that our future selves will share the same views, perspectives and hopes as our current selves — and shows how we can more proactively craft the people we are to become.