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Design your best life.

Design your best life.

By Circ Cular

At Circlo, we're imagining a more humane way to social in the age of AI, based on 3+ years of science-backed research. If we're not in control of our dopamine and social status then we are the product. This podcast is about empowering you to discover the best version of yourself through conquering everyday illusive design and algorithmic bias designed by the attention economy.
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#2 Superstimuli – On Handling Dopamine

Design your best life. Jun 16, 2023

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#2 Superstimuli – On Handling Dopamine

#2 Superstimuli – On Handling Dopamine

To find out more about how we can become the best version of ourselves and rage against superstimuli, check out circlo.com and share this video to help spread the word. I’ll be making more videos about the biology, science and psychology of design and how we can design a world that we can be proud to live in.

Link to original article: https://blog.circlo.com/2-superstimuli-on-handling-dopamine/

Follow the journey here:

Jun 16, 202308:56
#1 Awareness – On Handling Anger

#1 Awareness – On Handling Anger

The amygdala is a primitive component of the brain responsible for processing emotions that directly influence our behavior. It’s impulsive, angry, racist, sexist, judgmental, deceitful and revengeful. It takes action without our consent and is triggered at even the smallest inconvenience. Detecting the race of person takes 200ms whilst the gender is detected at 150ms and this is all done unconsciously without our awareness.

To find out more about how we can become the best version of ourselves and develop more awareness in our lives, check out circlo.com and share this article to help spread the word. I’ll be making more content about the biology, science and psychology of design and how we can design a world that we can be proud to live in.


Link to original article: https://blog.circlo.com/design-is-dead/


Follow the journey here:

Jun 14, 202305:33
8 reasons why design is dead (and how we can revive it).

8 reasons why design is dead (and how we can revive it).

I’m ashamed to call myself a designer.

I started my design journey inspired to make this world a more beautiful place. I believed that I could help visionaries build products that would allow us to realize the best version of themselves and utilize their full creative potential. Instead I succumbed to becoming a cog to the tyrannical apathetic tech culture of engineering and bureaucracy.

Right now tech is being designed using illusive design patterns aimed at depleting our dopamine reservoir resulting in increased rates of anxiety, exploiting our emotions through social status play resulting in increased stress and disregarding our values and boundaries resulting in the prevention of us becoming the best version of ourselves. Design has no power. Design is dead.

Jun 12, 202324:55