affective design

Over at Boxes and Arrows, they’ve published the first part of an article I’ve been working on for some time now on how to design products with personalities that encourage the people who use them to form relationships. Read more

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I’ve given talks at a number of conferences over the years, but the 2010 IA Summit was my first time presenting both a talk and a poster. Read more

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With all the different models out there used to describe designing for emotion, it can be difficult to understand how to apply any individual model, or understand how all the models relate to each other. Several years ago, I set out to gain an understanding of how these models were different and how they were similar. Read more

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“To some people, a car is a kind of extension of the self—it seems to send a message about what kind of person one is and one’s sense of values and style.” Designers have been using an understanding of sociology, anthropology and psychology to design automobiles that appeal to consumers on an emotional level… Read more

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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

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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

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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

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The recent introduction of the iPhone has me thinking again about how Apple excels at communicating a consistent personality for each of their products… Read more

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