After learning about persuasive design, we were asked to apply The Six Thinking Hats to Eric’s video. The problem he brought up is that he wants to mediate more but fail to do so due to varies reasons including that he has a busy schedule. Our group assigned to the Red Hat which is responsible to get everyone’s gut feelings about the alternatives. Different members in my groups all have expressed different emotions and feelings they have or others have. Because Eric says that he can actually manage his work well and learn new coding effectively. My feeling is that, to him, maybe he enjoys things that can directly show him result more. For meditation, he cannot see the result or the benefits they can get from it right away. It was a slower and invisible learning process comparing to coding/working on his project. It might give him less motivation to keep that meditation schedule. Giving a trigger like setting an alarm everyday at one specific time to remind him doing meditation could be one good idea. He can also write down his daily schedule to find out which specific period time he is free in general.
I really enjoyed the workshop because the six thinking hats give a way to open up a conversation to hear multiple types of ideas by design. We can easily get stuck in a specific role or way of thinking so using the six thinking hats can help each of us open to new ways of seeing a problem.