Archive for the 'Emotion & UX' Category
An Interview with Dr. BJ Fogg - Pt.1
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to speak with Dr. BJ Fogg, author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do and founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University about persuasion, emotion and what it is that makes Web 2.0 so darned persuasive…
The Emoticon Turns 25 :-)
I’d like to wish a happy belated birthday to the smiley face emoticon, which recently turned 25! Wow! Has it really been that long? The emoticon doesn’t look a day over 21… 
Brand Personality and Trust
According to research presented at CHI 2007, users judge the relevancy of identical search results from different search engines based on the brand, with Yahoo and Google coming out on top… Read more
Testing Emotional Responses to Websites
Over at Simpler is Better, Iain Barker describes how he used 118 emotion words from the Microsoft Product Reaction Cards to test people’s reactions to websites… Read more
Phones That Sense Their Environment
The recent announcement of the iPhone, equipped with motion and proximity sensing capabilities was only the first in a rash of new phones that can sense and respond to the environment… Read more
Designing Emotional Software
Donald Norman has a post on his blog about how he helped H&R Block create their new tax software tango based on Emotional Design principles… Read more
Emotion, Arousal, Attention and Flow on Slideshare
In a previous post, I mentioned how Stephen P. Anderson had utilized a few slides from my 2006 IA Summit talk for his fantastic presentation entitled Creating Pleasurable Interfaces… Read more
Creating Pleasurable Interfaces with Stephen P. Anderson
Stephen P. Anderson from PoetPainter has posted a presentation on Slideshare entitled “Creating Pleasurable Interfaces: Getting From Tasks to Experiences”… Read more
