“We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.” KnowsWayHeartRealSeemsBehindsGroupsDesignEmotionalDevelopmentIntellectDrawingAppealsReal ThingsMotion Pictures Author:Walt Disney
“While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.” PeopleIssuesDesignEmotionalKernelPortability Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.” PeopleNeedsStatesViewsEmotionDesignEmotionalProductsPersonalityIntentionHorribleDesignerUsersSignalsWebsiteInstill Author:Donald A. Norman
“It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend about adolescents. . . . That they do not confide in us is hardly surprising. They use wise discretion in disguising themselves with the caricatures we design for them. And unfortunately for us, as for them, too often adolescents retain the caricatured personalities they had merely meant to try on for size.” KnowsTryingFactsUseWiseDesignEmotionalPersonalitySizeOddSurprisingAdolescenceInfantDiscretionCaricaturesEmotional Life Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.” IfsNeedsWellsBigsHalfDesignEmotionalEmptyTreatsEnvironmentalGlassesCustomersAestheticEngineersOptimistDoing GoodPessimistStandpointGood DesignHalf FullHalf Empty Author:Yves Behar
“Fashion to me is very emotional. It's my strongest form of self-expression, and I love wearing a piece of clothing where I feel like I can run around at any moment and dance in it. So you know, I guess when I'm designing, I want the clothes to feel celebratory and feel very light and fun and feel like you could move seamlessly.” MomentsRunningMovingFunFashionDesignEmotionalLike You Author:Nicole Richie
“At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking photographs at the same time, and architecture, though it had the design element, it didn't have the narrative, emotional element that I was looking to do. I ended up painting for a while. I was dancing around it, and I realized that all these different interests came together in filmmaking.” DifferentTogetherInterestDesignEmotionalPaintingDancingPhotographArchitectureI RealizedFilmmaking Author:Neil Burger
“Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.” ArtDifferentQualityStyleDesignEmotionalCleverConsistentSoberGraphic Author:Francoise Mouly
“The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.” GivingStoriesMissingDesignEmotionalInternetComputerMathematicalFree SpeechEyebrowsMissing You Author:Frank Zappa