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
Emotional Ergonomics
To collect examples of emotional ergonomics, both good and bad, as we experience new feelings in the navigation of cyberphysical spaces.
Shuya Gong • 35 cards
Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) | Acquired Podcast
acquired.fm“emotional architecture”—a concept which also lends the title to this exhibition. According to Barragán, “It is very important for humankind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.”
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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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People hire services not just based on what they can do but how it makes them feel.
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but experiences to be had.
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You can’t charge a premium price for giving people what they expect, and you won’t ever have break-out products that way—the kinds of products that people line up around the block for.