Posts Tagged ‘Emotional Design’
We are pleased to present below all posts tagged with ‘Emotional Design’.
Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites
- April 12th, 2012
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Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use to play any role at all; rather, they were drowned by a flood of rational functionality and ...
Read more...Give Your Website Soul With Emotionally Intelligent Interactions
- March 28th, 2012
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What is it that makes us loyal fans of the websites and apps we love? When we sat down to answer this question for ourselves, we found that the websites and apps we truly love have one thing in common: soul. They’re humanized. They have emotional intelligence designed into the user ...
Read more...Redesigning With Personality
- March 27th, 2012
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We are very happy to present a sample chapter by Aarron Walter from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3. In this chapter, Aarron explains how sharing our personalities can help us create lasting relationships with users, and how it can improve the bottom line of our business. The sample is ...
Read more...Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends
- March 15th, 2012
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Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look, we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges, vulgar gradients with vibrant colors and diagonal background patterns. The transformation has been welcomed with relief by all but the ...
Read more...A Craft Of Consequences: Reader, Writer And Emotional Design
- February 8th, 2012
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Before the very first page of a book has been read, you’ve already analyzed it in countless ways without even noticing. The paper stock, the thickness of the binding, the aroma, the color of the type and even the texture of the cover; the very character of the book is ...
Read more...The Personification of Design
- August 3rd, 2011
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Just how we are constantly trying to fit in with a certain crowd or to be seen in a certain way by our peers in real life, we are doing the same in our digital lives. And by digital lives I mean our social media profiles. If you come to ...
Read more...Relationship Engineering: Designing Attraction
- April 8th, 2011
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“Look at her: so beautiful, so friendly, so smart. And what a personality. She must be mine. Hooking up with her would make me the envy of all my friends. Sure, she’s young and she’s gorgeous. Besides, I can easily try something new if I get bored or something better ...
Read more...How To Use Photos To Sell More Online
- June 25th, 2010
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As a photographer and UX designer, I pay particular attention to the effectiveness of photography when I’m testing with users. Regardless of the context, users rarely fail to comment on or be influenced by photography when shopping online. This article pulls together principles from psychology, marketing, UX design and photographic theory. ...
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