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
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
... See moreThe Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings
"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 moreThat consumer (and prosumer) products ultimately succeed because of how people feel about themselves using them. Ego analytics, surprise and delight, and hooks to appeal to our laziness, vanity, and selfishness in the first mile of product experience are the biggest secret in product.
Scott Belsky • What Is “Seeing the Matrix” for a Product Leader?
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.comI 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.comThe crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the radiance of unconditional love within a human heart lifts all of life