Compassion is to suffer alongside one who has a mistrust of society, which is to feel their pain and continue loving them. As a designer, one ought to have the sense of concern that arises when we are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to see that suffering relieved (Compassionate Design: How to design for advanced dementia, 2018). Thus, one should be able to place loving-kindness at the heart of the design process, ensuring that design validates and maintains one's dignity (Compassionate Design: How to design for advanced dementia, 2018).

              Vanessa Diffenbaugh in 'The Language of Flowers', quoted that “If you’ve spent your whole life running from love, what would it take to make you believe that anyone can grow into something beautiful?” (Diffenbaugh, 2011) It is very important to motivate the community to practice to be a compassionate person in society. Moreover, living in a society where talk is cheap, communication without words is important with an extra something to deliver our gratitude, love, and compassion in the best way which we could apply the secret power of a flower's language in order to heal one who is in pain. Lurther Burbank quoted that “flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul”. Therefore, as a designer, we could see our work as “flowers'' that create a gift to society to encourage compassion.

             By finding the pain points of others, we as designers, it’s our job to listen and observe in order to improve our work by giving a positive impact on others. Hence, A good design is a byproduct of compassionate behavior.

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Bibliographies:

 

1. Laugh Project, Cardiff Metropolitan University. (2018). Compassionate Design: How to design for advanced dementia.                                                                                                       A compassionate Design focuses on three vital components, which are personalisation, sensory, and connecting that is key when designing for people who are cognitively impaired. For example, Design stimulates the senses, that is highly personalized and helps to foster connections between people.

2.  Diffenbaugh, V., 2011. Language of Flowers. Gardners Books.                                             The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red rose for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system,  she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.

3. Ted Talks Daily. (2021). How compassion could save your strained relationships [Podcast]. Retrieved 2 May 2021, from https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SpfMEY2mPcJbEbeGw9akv?si=ZCXbZUADS-W25yjT_LA_sg.                                                                                                                            When personal relationships and ideological differences collide, the results can lead to strained relationships or even years of silence and distance. In this podcast, actor Betty Hart offers an alternative to cold shoulders and haughty hellos: compassion, and a chance for growth and change instead of losing important time with loved ones.

4. Curlett, J. (2017). Compassion. Dominican Scholar. Retrieved 2 May 2021, from https://scholar.dominican.edu/tuxedolit/vol2011/iss1/3/?utm_source=scholar.dominican.edu%2Ftuxedolit%2Fvol2011%2Fiss1%2F3&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages.                                                                               Our human compassion binds us one to another, not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

5. Scala, L. (2017). Designing with Compassion. (2017). Retrieved 2 May 2021, from https://blog.prototypr.io/designing-with-compassion-fac8eed2bbc9.                                  Design is never about designing,  it is about working with others to find solutions to their problems. It’s only by getting on someone else’s level and experiencing their journey and needs can one create an experience that doesn’t make assumptions.

6. Ted Talks. (2020). The Power of Flowers [Video]. Retrieved 2 May 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCVUyeHD2lQ.                                                          Flowers could bring harbingers of joy, help to release stress. They could become a bouquet for someone, it is known as a portable nature. Flowers could also be able to transform a space and change the energy in the room.

7. Ted Talks. (2019). Flowers that Heal Us - Plant Communication & Flower Essences [Video]. Retrieved 2 May 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fit7BqpBDLE.     Plants are able to receive and respond to information from us. In Japan, healing gardens are created and are part of many hospitals. It is known as shinrin-yoku(forest bathing), it is able to increase our natural killer cells, and is able to reduce stress hormones in order to ‘remove’ the negative emotional well-being.

8. TED x Salford. (2012). The secret language of flowers [Video]. Retrieved 2 May 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu6u5Kh0g70.                                                    Flowers produce patterns in multiple sensory modes, overlapping and over-layering each other. These patterns act both adverts and as an instruction manual, sometimes even a reward as well. Just like designs, we tend to produce various artwork in order to gather different audiences in different artwork

9. Armano, D. (2006). Creating Compassionate Designers [Image]. Retrieved 1 May 2021, from https://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/visualizations/.                                  There are four steps we can develop compassion for our audience/users: Get out of the office, Talk to Someone, Eat, Sleep, Dream Curiosity, and Do what they do. If we get to feel for the people we design for, we will do what is in their best interest, and that is being compassionate designers.

10.  Keltner, D. (2010). The compassionate instinct. Norton.                                                             We see violence and selfishness exist in the world around us but there’s scientific evidence that another world is possible. This research challenges some long-held notions about human nature, revealing that the good in us is just as intrinsic to our species as the bad. Empathy, gratitude, compassion, altruism, fairness, trust, and cooperation, once thought to be aberrations from the tooth-and-claw natural order of things, are actually core features of primate evolution.