Designing for Emotions
Designing a product, work etc. by thinking about the emotions we want to elicit in the users.
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Designing for Emotions
Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) | Acquired Podcast
acquired.fmIn the end, what’s most meaningful is creating positive, uplifting outcomes for human experiences and human relationships. Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple, and it’s that hard.
Danny Meyer • Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
A measure of success tied to a feeling rather than a number feels enlivening precisely because it’s about what makes you come alive rather than what you think people will want.
I want them to take away from the book the same thing they would take from the concert.
I want them to think, well,
I feel better now.
I feel uplifted now.
I feel that things are possibile now.
I know... See more
Dolly Partonsubstack.comAnd 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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The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quotes
I think most people are looking at consumer AI wrong.
They're focused on finding products that solve a problem or meet a clearly articulated need.
But when you look at runaway hits like Midjourney and Character AI, the "use case" is just people having fun.
Justine Mooretwitter.com