In 2022, Katie published Life & Death Design: What Life-Saving Technology Can Teach Every UX Designers with Rosenfeld Media, the foremost publisher on user experience topics. This book explores what designers need to know about the human stress response to design for high-stress, high-stakes situations.
Testimonials
Katie Swindler does a brilliant job of breaking down our stress response, with vivid stories that demonstrate how the systems we create help or hinder at critical times.
–Carolyn Chandler, Coauthor, A Project Guide to UX Design and Adventures in Experience Design
To gain amazing insight from Swindler’s excellent book, you don’t need to be someone who designs for people in extremis. You just need to be someone who designs for people under stress, which is, of course, everybody.
—Jon Bloom, Ph.D., Staff Conversation Designer, Google
Swindler’s memorable insights are effective for practitioners in all fields; you’ll be returning to this one again and again.
—Melissa Smith, PhD, UX Researcher, YouTube
A great deep-dive for anyone interested in understanding how the products and services they build impact behavior, and how to actively design for that responsibility.
—Lauren Liss, Assistant Professor, Columbia College Chicago