Systematic barriers include Cultural Norms and differences that might affect our understanding processes, perception or communication styles of different cultures.
Psychological Barriers: Stress, anxiety, or other emotional states that affect an individual’s ability to communicate effectively.
1. Change resistance
One of the most significant challenges during a digital transformation is resistance to change.
Even if a change sets your organization up for future success, some people won’t quickly warm to the idea. Employees and managers may resist using new tools and technologies due to fear of change in their workflow. Change is uncomfortable, but it’s also inevitable, and resistance can slow down the transformation process.
Digital transformation leaders and CEOs should communicate the reasons for the change, focusing on the benefits and what employees can expect. Addressing employees’ concerns is also key to overcoming this challenge. Leaders must listen to the reason for the resistance and provide solutions to any concerns.
Remember that your view of the change and digital transformation can highly affect your employees. If you communicate uncertainty and fear, your employees will too. Demonstrate a positive attitude and model the desired mindset for your employees.
A guide to barriers in User Experiences Design
Cognitive Disabilities:
Feeling overwhelmed by sensory overload: Websites with flashing animations or bright colors might be overwhelming for users with sensory processing disorders or bright lights and loud noises sensibility
Struggling to concentrate on complex website layouts: attention deficit disorders might influence the ability to focus on and understand complex web layouts
Misunderstanding unclear instructions or navigation: Someone with a learning disability might get confused by ambiguous website menus.
Difficulty navigating environments without clear headings or landmarks.
Feeling disoriented by cluttered or complex interfaces: users may struggle to find their way around environments with confusing layouts or excessive audio-visual distractions.
6 Emotional Barriers to Generating Ideas and How to Overcome Them
In the book Conceptual Blockbusting (Adams, 1978) outlines a range of emotional blocks that limit our creative and cognitive thinking:
A fear to make mistakes, to fail, to risk.
Preference for judging ideas rather than generating them.
No tolerance for ambiguity or chaos.
A lack of challenge – not engaging enough.
Excessive zeal – too much speed, pace and haste
An inability to relax and to incubate ideas
Overcoming Emotional Barriers with Graphic Design
Emotional barriers to communication are usually due to a lack of emotional awareness or control (Gratis, 2022). An emotional barrier is defined as being a mental block that influences perception of others’ actions, the surrounding environment and our judgement of stimuli coming from the environment. This also prevents us from clearly understanding and communicating feelings and states of mind, especially when these emotional barriers trigger an emotional response that’s inappropriate or unproductive in the context. This can trigger perception bias as well, which draws us to quick and often mistaken judgements and conclusions, based on out altered perception of stimuli, feelings and context. Some examples of emotional barriers that limit or affect our perception, cognitive processes, interactions and communications (and may also be relevant to my TCRE work) are:
anger (which actually affects the way out brain processes information)
anxiety (affects our behaviour, judgement and thinking)
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REFERENCES:
Whittaker, D.A., 1978. Conceptual blockbusting: A guide to better ideas—James L. Adams. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, (3), pp.128-129. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6593166
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