Chapter two of Designing For Emotion is called Designing for Humans. Instead of giving an overreaching summary, I will just touch on one aspect that I agreed with and one I disagreed with.

In chapter two I agree with the author, Aarron Walter, when he says people don’t learn emotion; rather our emotions are innate. Although I had never thought of this, reading it in Walter’s words made a lot of sense. We are born possessing our array of emotions. We don’t have to watch others or go to school to learn them, which is unlike how we have to learn to speak a language. Therefore I agree that emotions provide the perfect level to connect with people through design since we all possess the same emotions on our own.

I disagree with the author when he argues that in every interaction we have with anything, whether it be looking at clouds or a mangled piece of wood, we are simply trying to find a human face, moreover our face looking back at us. I have never once found myself looking for a human facial presence in an object or design to make an emotional connection; at least not knowingly. Sure I agree that we connect with designs that can touch our emotions but not necessarily that designs must in some way resemble a face to make us really connect with it.