Designing for Emotions
Designing a product, work etc. by thinking about the emotions we want to elicit in the users.
nicole and
Designing for Emotions
I’ve come to think of software applications as a form of digital architecture: some are places of concentration, others of collaboration, others clearly just for fun. Software’s emotional dimension is crucial: how it feels dictates how it’s used. (Architects hire environmental psychologists; tech companies hire user-experience researchers.)... See more
"Delight is the joy that results when something is unexpectedly good, in a way that it doesn’t have to be. If products were designed with delight as an end in itself, you’d probably start to see a lot of things in a product that didn’t lead directly to revenue or engagement. And you’d feel a sense of connection with the product’s creator – a sense
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People hire services not just based on what they can do but how it makes them feel.
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with... See more
Leber • The Feedback Tradeoff
And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives
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