Wellbeing supportive design – Research-based guidelines for supporting psychological wellbeing in user experience

09/19/2021

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by   Dorian Peters, et al.

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While human beings have a right to digital experiences that support, rather than diminish, their psychological wellbeing, technology designers lack research-based practices for ensuring psychological needs are met. To help address this gap, we draw on findings from over 30 years of research in psychology (specifically, self-determination theory) that has identified contextual factors shown to support psychological wellbeing. We translate these findings into a list of 14 heuristics and 28 design strategies to provide technology makers with theoretically grounded, research-based, and actionable ways to support wellbeing in user experience.