How Designers Can Build Experiences That Reduce Anxiety and Stress

A VR designer at Oculus explains how virtual experiences can ease the stress of the data deluge during the pandemic and beyond

Michelle Cortese
OneZero
Published in
12 min readMay 1, 2020

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Illustrations courtesy of the author

From my Brooklyn apartment in New York City, I watch Gov. Andrew Cuomo share the daily Covid-19 death toll with the nation. I watch his…

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Michelle Cortese
OneZero

Design @ Meta Reality Labs + NYU Adjunct — concerned with: design-ethics / social-VR / trash-hardware / virtual-inclusion / dada-futurism / glitch