What most UX designers get wrong about empathy

The importance of empathizing with the right people

Eric Chung
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readOct 16, 2022

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One person talking as an another person listens.
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In the world of UX design, designers often talk about empathy. It’s the first of five stages in the design thinking process.

Empathy is generally defined by “the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking…

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