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
we design our tech for users, not people. what a great little visual!
Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart's Law
Jascha Sohl-Dicksteinsohl-dickstein.github.ioSuperhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) | Acquired Podcast
acquired.fmThe 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
"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
... See moreI’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.) Microso... See more
if software is to have soul, it must feel more like the world around it. Which is the biggest clue of all that feeling is what’s missing from today’s software. Because the value of the tools, objects, and artworks that we as humans have surrounded ourselves with for thousands of years goes so far beyond their functionality. In many ways, their prim... See more
