design & emotion - Marco van Hout

NH Hoteles and Philips partner for two year study into consumer well-being
June 26, 2008

I found this one already some weeks ago, but thought it would be nice to post it anyway. A great example of experience-driven innovation in hotel spaces for improvement of the well-being of guests.
Design & Emotion group at LinkedIn
June 23, 2008

I don’t think I told you all about the Design & Emotion group at LinkedIn, an interest group affiliated to the Design & Emotion Society. Would you care to join us there?
BBC uses emotions to have people comment to statements
June 23, 2008

At the BBC website, there is a very nice app to comment on specific statements related to current events. The nice thing about this one, is that you comment by expressing your experienced emotion with the statement.

Creating Emotional Impact Through Vision
Juliane Trummer (Research & Strategy Manager at Teague)

What has always fascinated me most about industrial design is its thematic complexity, touching on a broad range of fascinating topics that all relate to the human being, bringing together a wide range of problems and questions from different disciplines. Some of these disciplines are scientific and lend themselves to relative “objectiveness”. Other disciplines are difficult to quantify or are not quantifiable at all; they are abstract and relate back to basic questions about human existence such as identity & change, space & time, religion & spirituality, mind & matter.
Total Beautiful
Roger Jackson (Industrial Designer at Teague)

During my time at the London-based Samsung design studio, a colleague and I coined the phrase ‘total beautiful’. It was a phrase we gave to designs we felt were beautiful from any angle or perspective. It came about as we were admiring the Eames side chair in our office. The beautifully crafted and flowing formed seat is elegantly poised on metal Eiffel frame legs - a truly iconic aesthetic that is not merely skin deep. Matched with equal flare and function, it is an extremely controlled, engineered and ergonomically comfortable chair.

Sensory Logic