Chapter 1 designing for emotion

For this blog post, I decided to read Chapter 1 in Designing for Emotion. This chapter talked about understanding the needs of people we are designing for. I enjoyed reading about the context of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. I agree with this pyramid that stresses the levels of needs and in which order they must be met. I have learned about this idea in several classes throughout college but found it interesting to read about it from a media standpoint. The needs begin with physiological then safety, love and belongingness, then esteem and self- actualization. We see these needs being met everyday and it’s interesting to me that they are usually met in that exact order. There wasn’t anything in this chapter that I really disagreed with. I agreed with almost every aspect regarding emotion having a strong impact on our media.