What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
Most people that know me consider me an empath, and I think empathy was a large reason why I originally went into the design field. I felt like my inherint ability to keep the user or the consumer in mind made me a natural for design-based work.
How does empathy help you build better software?
I think empathy really can be a source of inspiration for creating more exciting, cutting edge software. A lot of the time software has a high learning curve, or can be difficult for the people who really could benefit from it's power to access it readily. I think by tapping more into empathy, we will be able to create more intelligent software that can help marginalized, high need groups.
Why is empathy important for working on a team?
I think it's important for a team to continually work and draw attention to empathy, because it is easily looked over. There is no initial gain from empathy, often times you have to gi