“[A]ttractive things make people feel good, which in turn makes them think more creatively... making it easier for people to find solutions to the problems they encounter.” Pins: 1 Favorites: 0

Donald Norman, Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

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Aesthetic Enjoyment Intrinsic user motivation. Happy users are open-minded to problem solving, and memories of problems are overshadowed by memories of enjoyment. Aesthetics

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“Mental models let people derive appropriate behavior for situations... [D]esigners should provide users with appropriate models: when they are not supplied, people are likely to make up inappropriate ones.” Donald Norman

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“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies.” Donald Norman

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Subconscious Aesthetic Impressions

Form and Function

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