Designing for Emotion Ch. 1

While reading Chapter 1 in Designing for Emotion, I found that there were many things that I could agree with. Because I am a Junior almost Senior in college, I am in the job searching process. The chapter talks about the way that social media has influenced the voice of the web and now our conversations on the internet are more often the way we’d speak to friends. Because we can now share are daily life thoughts on Facebook, Twitter etc. it allows for us to be less professional. Now that I am getting older and searching for jobs, I am extremely wary of what I say and post to social media. Businesses search and look for what you post on your sites and one small thing can lead to another. I agree with the chapter when they talk about the way social media represents a major change in the way that we communicate.

One thing that I disagreed with when reading the chapter was the effectiveness of the 37Signals. Because our environment is changing rapidly, 24/7 it is just weird to think that this “simplicity and spartan design” is so reliable and hasn’t changed once. It might need some tweaking!