emotional design as strategic imperative
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Emotional Design: A Strategic Imperative
Joely Gardner, PhD
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Agenda
1. Industries? 2. Why bother with it? 3. What is Emotional Design? 4. How is it strategic? 5. How do you create emotional designs? 6. Examples 7. Group discussion of challenges and solutions 8. Resources
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Excitement (Unknown WOW’s) What happens over time??
Time Performance (Spoken)
Basic (Expected)
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Did it Very well
Didn’t do it at all (Or very poorly)
You don’t get points for must have’s
Adapted from the work of Professor Noriaki Kano
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Monetary value of emotions
“The customer rarely buys what the company is selling him.”
Peter Drucker
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What is it? Brain child of Dr. Donald Norman
Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things (2003)
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The challenge…
n So, in Emotional Design, I don’t give rules. The rules and practical advice are in Chapter 8. Unfortunately, right now, the book only has seven chapters.
http://www.design-emotion.com/2004/12/15/getting-emotional-with-donald-norman/
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Norman on emotions
n Human centered design means n Relieving customers of frustration n Of confusion n Of a sense of helplessness n Make them feel in control n And empowered
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Be Strategic: Go beyond expected change!
NEEDS =
Verbs ✔
Nouns ✖
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How do we know this?
A rare glimpse inside the brain
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Emotions vs. Cognition fMRI validates that emotion and cognition
contribute to the control of
thought and behavior conjointly and equally.
Khalid and Helander “Customer Emotional Needs in
Product Design” Concurrent Engineering,
2006; 14;197
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Left-Right Conflict
Black Blue Green
Say the COLOR not the word:
Yellow
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Engage the Left Brain
n Why?
n What are the benefits?
n Compare A to B
n What happens when...
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Engage the Right Brain n How did you feel about
that? n What was the experience
like? n Tell me more about that. n Frustrations? n Best of all possible worlds
vs. worst nightmare?
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Use the language of emotion
n What would you want to see that would make you feel you can “trust” this product?
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What tools access emotions? Open-ended questions Researcher’s response to context: n Body language (“You look …”) n Emotional tone (“You sound…”) n Use of words (negative vs. positive) n Sighs (wishes) n Eye blinks (signifies confusion or
discomfort)
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The secret is to “operationalize” the desired feeling
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Designing products
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Can hardware have an emotional appeal?
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Norman on great products
n “If you want a successful product, test and revise. If you want a great product, one that can change the world, let it be driven by someone with a clear vision. The latter presents more financial risk, but it is the only path to greatness.”
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Product Design: Economics vs. Hedonomics*
Why? “Hedonomics!”
* Greek: eco/oikos (household); nomos (law); hedo (pleasure)
• Marketed late • Costs more • Best selling MP3 player
iPod
• Easy to use • Aesthetically appealing • It’s “cool.” It “feels good.”
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Flip Video
For a business case study: http://www.delmarresearch.com/
Developed by Pure Digital Technologies in 2006 and acquired by Cisco Systems in 2009 for $590M
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Flip Video Designs
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Designing websites
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What emotion does this address?
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Emotional messages?
http://www.schwans.com/ #1 in website conversions, August 2009 – MARKETCHARTS.COM
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Emotional appeal of a pop-up
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Designing a service
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NetFlix
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Resources n www.humaine.net n http://www.ted.com/ (Technology, Education, Design) n http://www.springerlink.com/content/8m620712861m0560/
- Article: “Emotional Design; Application of a Research-Based Design Approach” Journal: Knowledge, Technology & Policy, September 2007
n http://www.delmarresearch.com/ -- Bean’s Notes on Customer Experience Advantage
n http://www.designingforhumans.com/idsa/ n http://www.designverb.com/
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Humaine.net
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http://studiolab.io.tudelft.nl/
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Did we cover the following?
1. Why bother with it? 2. What is Emotional Design? 3. How is it strategic? 4. How do you create emotional designs? 5. Examples 6. Group discussion of challenges and solutions 7. Resources
