designing for feelings
by Keely Adler · updated 5mo ago
designing for feelings
- Playgrounds over Paths
Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.
Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".
Instead of... See morefrom Link
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Neuroaesthetics Design cultural study
Neuroaesthetics explores the impact of aesthetics on our brains and bodies, offering insights into design for feeling, community, transformation, longevity, and belonging in architecture and design.
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
- If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.
from Retrofuturism by stealing
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
- To us, the first question isn't about algorithms, or feeds, or content moderation or even advertising. It's very simply about what you want a place to feel like. It's more emotional than technical.
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
from Visualizing Minimalist Design by Thomas Klaffke
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
Vernacular architecture also tends to be more human-scale as a direct result of how it was built. Such places are therefore often more suited to social integration and to community, to healthier and happier lifestyles, and all the other benefits of human-scale design.
from Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38 by Creative Destruction
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
every technology is really unfinished until it’s used by people
from On Understanding Power and Technology by Rachel Coldicutt
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
Chat, they noted, can be cozy, intimate, casual, revelatory, expansive; it also has an emotional undercurrent. “Chat’s immediacy emphasizes response, reminding us that we do not simply create and express ourselves in writing, but create and express our relationships,” the editors argued
from The Age of Chat by Anna Wiener
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
Part of the problem with the Lean Startup mindset is that it sees life and work as an optimization problem. The point is to help people live a good life, not just an efficient life. The goal is human flourishing, not convenience. The goal is a good future, not just a technically advanced future.
from Things I'm Thinking About by the startupy newsletter
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
By disobeying the digital design standards, we find room to explore new possibilities. We create surprise and we dive into the undiscovered. Refusing these guidelines, we design new spaces within which new narratives can occur, that people should take time to discover and understand. By doing so, we create a relationship with our welcomed visitors
... See morefrom Positive Friction by DVTK
Keely Adler added 6mo ago