In the world that is increasingly divided, people are demanding more. As customers and communities adapt their everyday lives, we look to understand their needs and behaviours – but what about understanding their emotions? This vital design dimension is often ignored and yet, as designers, we are ultimately responsible for connecting with people by making them feel!
How do we bring a sense of emotion to emerging technologies and products to create more meaning and bring humanity back into our interactions? We design experiences that are as layered as us humans.
Building connection - both real and virtual – is the foundation. Let’s use Emotional Design to embrace the change we are facing today and make the world a better place through creativity tomorrow.
Join Yasmin and Greet as they explore what emotion will look like in tomorrow’s world and how this will impact design by pushing us to look beyond.
4. Emotional
Design
Reflective
(It completes me)
Behavioural
(I can master it)
Don Norman’s emotional design
Visceral
(I want it!)
Functional
Task focus
Anderson’s hierarchy of needs
Reliable
Experience focus
Usable
The missing piece
Pleasurable
Has
meaning
5. Going beyond functional and
usable and creating products that
deliver positive experiences for
users - products that people love.
What is emotional design
6. When a positive
connection is
created with a
brand
90%
of us are
more likely
to stay loyal
to brand
Source: https://www.deloittedigital.com/us/en/blog-list/2019/in-our-feelings--how-emotion-elevates-
customer-experience.html
88%
are more
likely to
spend more
91%
are willing to
advocate
on behalf of
the brand
7. Till now we
designed for
one emotion
Happiness Sadness Fear
Disgust Anger Surprise
10. Happy Sadness Disgust Fear Anger
Happy
Sadness
Disgust
Anger
Fear
Ecstasy Melancholy Intrigue Surprise Righteousness
Melancholy
Intrigue
Surprise
Righteousness
Despair
Self-loathing
Anxiety
Betrayal
BetrayalAnxietySelf-loathing
Prejudice
Revulsion
Revulsion Loathing
Loathing
Terror
RageHatred
Hatred
And we
are
complex
11. Technology
as an enabler
“By 2022, your personal
device will know more
about your emotional
state than your own
family.”
— Annette Zimmermann
12. Is emotion the main
driver for changing
lives for the better?
13. The world we live in now …
Technology is
better at
understanding
us - recognising,
and responding
to our emotions
People want
to express
themselves
and share
their emotions
Our society is
focused on
emotional
intelligence and
well-being
14. Designers need to create experiences
Passive and sameness
Loyalty by marketing strategy
Purely functional and
transactional interactions
Recognising and responding
Reinventing how brand behaves
and creating new relationships
Empathic interactions,
increasing over time
15. BrandPeople
Understand how
people feel and why
Navigate and design for all
emotions (our multi-layered
selves that changes over
time)
Build in different
perspectives — embracing
individuals, cultural diversity,
and circumstances
Building ‘emotional’ a
relationship between
Communicate with
empathy. Be authentic
and relevant