Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Emotionally-centered design (02 Apr 2006) Web 2.0 is coming. Rich Internet applications (RIA) are here. Hurrah! The internet has caught up with the desktop, at long last. As a result, they provide some natural experiments in emotionally-attractive websites, allowing us to contrast the more traditional, static html page website with these more interactive, dynamic ones, where there are natural controls for information content, utility, and usability. So let’s see what we can learn from them. In this exploration, I concentrate on map websites because they provide the ingredients for appropriate comparisons. We know how to make products that are easy to use and understand. But what about emotions? What about designs that delight? What do we know about how to produce an emotional impact? Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/emotionallycentered.html Read 89 more articles from Don Norman sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Interaction Design is still an art form: Ergonomics is real engineering          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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