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Evelyn Masso
August 04, 2018
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Transcript
Empathetic Engineering Evelyn Masso (@outofambit)
We use empathy in our jobs!
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empathy?
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
1. everything is designed 2. you always have a user
Rhetoric of software engineering
https://www.hiremorewomenintech.com
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Cisheteropatriarchy
Empathy Developers literally anything else
Euphemisms for Empathy
Euphemisms for empathy use case, consumer, user, client, assumptions, maintainable,
readable, story, correct
Who? person: client other developers: correct, maintainable, readable, assumptions, consume
customer: user, client, layperson
Empathy in engineering •Documentation •APIs •Collaborative development
Documentation
Who is the user?
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Questions to ask yourself • what do they know? •
what do they need to know /first/? • how can they learn more about a given topic?
Empathy Map https://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/themes/dschool/ method-cards/empathy-map.pdf
APIs
Who is the user?
Developers
Questions to ask yourself • what are the needs of
the developers using this API? • where/how might they use it? • what patterns are they familiar with? • what other APIs might they use with it?
TDD
Collaborative problem solving
pull requests, pair programming, filing issues
Who is the user?
Developers
Active Listening
The Five Whys
In summary,
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Thank you! (@outofambit)