Design and non-violent communication: how to listen

What if designers used non-violent communication tools to focus more on how to listen, empathise, and understand. Would that help when researching, designing, pitching, and presenting?

Sanna Rau
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readJan 24, 2023

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steampunk device attached to a human ear
Listening is difficult, given that humans have an average eight-second attention span.

Listening before speaking

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