Articles about Emotions

Designing Curiosity: A Beginner’s Guide

Curiosity is powerful. How can we be more curious? Is it possible to invite others to be curious as well? [Read More]

Five-Second Rules Help Build a Better Test (Book Review)

A review of The UX Five-Second Rules: Guidelines for User Experience Design’s Simplest Testing Technique by Paul Doncaster. An online, unmoderated method based on human perception. [Read More]

Motion Design: An Intro to UX Choreography

The UX application of UI motion design is becoming so important, it’s taking on new terminology of its own—UX choreography. [Read More]

Measuring Emotions: Self Report as an Alternative to Biometrics

Using an emotion chart to capture self-reported emotions can be more cost effective, unbiased, and accurate compared to agile biometric methods. [Read More]

Empathy: Defining, Realizing, and Facilitating

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What does empathy mean for user experience? It’s our ability to understand someone else’s experience from their perspective – a valuable skill for any designer. [Read More]

Power Play (Issue 3.3)

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Games, gamers, emotions and storytelling. (Full text not available) [Read More]

Pretending to Be You (Issue 2.2)

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Usability testing, using personas for evaluations and using emotion in design. (Full text not available) [Read More]

What’s Love Got to Do with It? (Issue 1.3)

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Articles on the ROI of usability and designing for emotions. (Full text not available) [Read More]