Chapter 1

Accompanied with the letterhead, we had to read the firsts chapter in our book, Designing with Emotion.  The reading was light but full of information.  I really enjoyed how the author was personable and funny at some points with connecting to the audience.

The chapter starts out with a basic summary of what people did as “crafts” years ago comparatively to the craft that designers do today.  Basically saying things that metal workers had a craft, but when they started to tailor to the emotions of people, sales would increase but most importantly become memorable.

As the internet continues to Boom with new web pages, it is not just about the context anymore.  People need to be drawn to stay on your page because of the design.

The biggest theme about the chapter was about how when you take the time to design your web pages or any forms of design, if you can inflict happy emotions on people, they will remember it and come back.  Especially if a website, like twitter, crashes, if they can give people a good emotion to come back, then they will.

I can tell I am going to enjoy reading these chapters.  The material you would think is “common sense”, but it is nice to have someone explain things from a different perspective.