Emotionally Durable Design: Sustaining relationships between...

Emotionally Durable Design: Sustaining relationships between users and domestic electronic products

This document explores the emotional dimension of design for durability in domestic electronic products, and its implications for sustainable design and consumer behavior.

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Life-centred design aims for regenerative futures by designing for:Product Lifecycle—Expanding responsibility of product design from focusing only on the time the product is with a target user to including the extraction of raw materials required to make the product, parts and product manufacturing, shipping and transportation, selling, using, disc... See more

Damien Lutz • The life-centred design compass

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Visceral design > Appearance Behavioral design > The pleasure and effectiveness of use Reflective design > Self-image, personal satisfaction, memories

Don Norman • Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

industrial designers emphasizing form and material, interactive designers emphasizing understandability and usability, and experience designers emphasizing the emotional impact.

Donald A. Norman • The Design of Everyday Things

reflective design considers the rationalization and intellectualization of a product.

Don Norman • Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

Design is concerned with how things work, how they are controlled, and the nature of the interaction between people and technology.

Donald A. Norman • The Design of Everyday Things

His product philosophy focuses on combining intuitive design, human psychology, and what’s technologically feasible. After these are melded, economic viability naturally comes afterwards.

Patricia Mou • vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat

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This is a must-read essay by Dan Hill, introducing Adaptive Design: Insanely great, or just good enough? Originally published in Core77 in 2004, it’s a critique of the unadaptable, glued-closed Apple iPod and its non-user-replaceable battery.

Hill quotes Brian Eno:

An important aspect of design is the degree to which the object involves you in its ow

Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement

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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

Don Norman

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