Where joy hides and how to find it | Ingrid Fetell Lee
Cherry blossoms and rainbows, bubbles and googly eyes: Why do some things seem to create such universal joy? In this captivating talk, Ingrid Fetell Lee ...
========== It's 2008, and I'm just finishing
my first year of design school. And I'm at my first year-end review, which is a form of ritual torture
for design students, where they make you take everything
you made over the course of the year and lay it out on a table and stand next to it
while a bunch of professors, most of whom you've never seen before, give you their unfiltered opinions of it. So it's my turn and I'm standing
next to my table, everything neatly lined up, and I'm just hoping
that my professors can see how much effort I've put
into making my designs practical and ergonomic and sustainable. And I'm starting to get really nervous, because for a long time,
no one says anything. It's just completely silent. And then one of the professors
starts...