Thursday, October 21, 2004
Demystifying Usability: Design and Emotion
Emotional responses always affect user's perceptions of design - but this article starts to address the issue from the other direction, by using trying to analyse how one can design things to play on emotional responses, and how those come about. Even Dondald Norman now recognises the value of good aesthetics (an emotional assessment):
Emotional responses always affect user's perceptions of design - but this article starts to address the issue from the other direction, by using trying to analyse how one can design things to play on emotional responses, and how those come about. Even Dondald Norman now recognises the value of good aesthetics (an emotional assessment):
“Up to recently, however, I could not make the connection between usability and aesthetics - they were distinct spheres of my life. Now, however, I have figured out the relationship”.
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