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!
notes from my conversation with Shuya Gong:
to design for convenience means to design for loneliness because you remove the step of connecting with a human.
AI helps design for solitude - it enables better ways to have more time with yourself in contemplation, because there’s a way to be interactive with yourself.
Chatbots are for the solutions stage,
... See moreI 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.comPeople hire services not just based on what they can do but how it makes them feel.
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
“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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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
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.com
There are brilliant examples all over the place of people tweaking time subjectively. One of my favorites is the Uber map. It doesn’t change how long you wait for the taxi. It changes the quality of the waiting time by reducing uncertainty. If you look at human emotions, although humans might say, “I don’t like waiting for a taxi,” what makes them... See more