Thank you to all the people that helped me make this project a reality.

Special thanks to the 55 designers who anonymously participated in this study.

Your help was invaluable to me, and this project wouldn't exist without you.

Special thanks to the 54 designers who anonymously participated in this study.

Your help was invaluable to me, and this project wouldn't exist without you.

Thank you to the three experts who accepted my invitation to participate in this study.

Petra Salaric

Award-winning researcher, designer, and activist. Specialist in wellbeing and taboo topics. Founder of the pstaboo consultancy.

Wil Heywood

Clinical Psychologist with a focus on team building, creative collaboration and mindfulness as it relates to design and visual thinking.

Eric Bandin

Doctoral Researcher who studies how hormones and brain dysfunction impact cognition, anxiety, and depression.

Thank you to the two incredible designers who selflessly helped me make sense of all the data I collected throughout this study.

McNeil Johnston

Kimberly Tsen

Thank you to the faculty members that supported me in this journey.

Andrew Whitcomb

Marysol Ortega Pallanez

Michelle Fehler

Wil Heywood

María del Mar Navarro

and many more.

You're awesome!

You're awesome!

You're awesome!

Thank you to my incredible cohort for your companionship, and encouragement.

Anthony Brown

Yuhao Kang

Achint (Noor) Jassal

Jhazzye Mosley

Naomi Chandran

Finally, thank you to The Design School, and to Arizona State Univeristy.

And to you, dear visitor, for reading this far. ♥