#emotional-design
#emotional-design

5 months ago

Design

Adorable 'Pet Paw' bottle leaves cute pawprints instead of ugly water rings - Yanko Design

1 day ago

Gadgets

This Designer Just Made Paper Clips Adorable With A Magnetic Tabletop Sheep - Yanko Design

5 months ago

Design

Adorable 'Pet Paw' bottle leaves cute pawprints instead of ugly water rings - Yanko Design

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2 weeks ago

Feelings are the new features

Your junior designer spins up a prototype in Lovable before lunch. Your PM shows you a "working" MVP built entirely with Cursor within a day. And your CEO forwards you a LinkedIn post about how AI will replace 80% of UI work by 2026. And it seems like anyone can now make an app to solve a specific problem. Has the graphical interface really died, as Jakob Nielsen provocatively suggests?

UX design

Design

This 3D-Printed Lamp Was Designed to Feel Like Mom's Hug - Yanko Design

HER Floor Lamp embodies maternal comfort through curved form, 3D-printed recycled PETG, blending emotional resonance, sustainability, and refined light diffusion.

So your AI wants a personality

Designing distinct personalities for AI systems shapes trust, adoption, and long-term user habits by embedding character into core interactions.

So your AI wants a personality

Designing AI product personalities as core interaction elements shapes trust, adoption, and long-term user habits by embedding character, emotion, and ethical reasoning into behavior.

So your AI wants a personality

People anthropomorphize conversational systems, causing emotional attachment and misattributed intentions; designers intentionally craft personalities to shape user perception and behavior.

This Designer Just Made a Lamp You Pump Up Like a Bike Tire - Yanko Design

Picture this: a lamp that literally grows before your eyes, expanding and glowing brighter as you pump air into it like you're inflating a bicycle tire. It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but it's very real, and it's called Blow. Designer Jung Kiryeon has created something that makes you rethink what a lamp can be, and honestly, it's kind of mesmerizing.

Design

This Finger Toothbrush Makes Oral Care Fun for Tiny Humans - Yanko Design

A finger-worn dinosaur toothbrush turns tooth-brushing into a playful, non-threatening experience to reduce infant fear and support parental oral-care routines.

Design

fromDesign Milk

Rumee by Gabriel Tan Is the Kind of Roommate Everyone Wants

Rumee 220 Portable Lamp creates emotional companionship through gentle form, tactile materials, intuitive handling, portable warmth, and light shaped to evoke familiarity and quiet comfort.

5 Emotional Design Products Designed to Spark Joy Every Single Time You Use Them - Yanko Design

Emotional design isn't just about making something look pretty but about crafting an experience that elicits a specific emotional response. Think about products you love, perhaps a sleek coffee maker that brings joy to your morning ritual, or a comfortable chair that offers a sense of calm after a long day. This isn't accidental but is the deliberate result of designers considering how the product will make you feel.

Design

Gadgets

fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine

AI Lantern Speaker Designed to Reduce Anxiety With Light and Sound - Yanko Design

A portable lantern and AI speaker hybrid provides soft light, calming sound, and tactile design to offer practical function and emotional comfort throughout the home.

Design

'design comes alive when it touches people': studio empathy's iF DESIGN AWARD library

Studio Empathy’s Assembled Void library prioritizes sensory engagement and cross-cultural dialogue to create emotionally resonant, people-centered architecture.

#journey-mapping

fromuxdesign.cc

Psychology

The 12 emotional journeys of color psychology

UX design

The 12 emotional journeys of color psychology

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Psychology

The 12 emotional journeys of color psychology

UX design

The 12 emotional journeys of color psychology

4 ways to make a brand indispensable

Brands should build emotional resonance by understanding and affirming customers' identities while addressing practical and emotional needs.

Nostalgia as product strategy

If you haven't seen them yet, OpenAI's launched new ad campaign of short 30 seconds videos that embed AI into an idealised, warmly analog, version of the past. They're quite visually pleasing, to be honest, with a slight VHS grain and muted colours, and depict very relatable everyday scenarios like wanting to impress a girl or getting fitter. They lean hard on 80s soundtracks and cheesy movie vibes.

Artificial intelligence

fromwww.archdaily.com

5 months ago

Touch House / MyAn Architects

Oki Hiroyuki + 29 Lead Team: Tran Thien Sinh Design Team: Nguyen Thuy Thien An Technical Team: Tran Thien Khien Architecture Offices: Myan Architects Landscape Architecture: Myan Architects Interior Design: Weedkend Decor

Design

6 months ago

Beyond Color: How PITAKA's Sunset Collection Is Shaping the Future of Emotional Design - Yanko Design

PITAKA's Sunset Collection turns sunset colors into everyday products for sharing and emotional connection.

Music

fromItsnicethat

6 months ago

Collins rebrand for Muse Group channels the invisible phenomena of experiencing music

Muse Group envisions a future where musicianship is as effortless as listening, eliminating technical barriers to creativity.

fromCreative Bloq

7 months ago

Jonny Ive is going to deliver another iPod moment - and OpenAI knows it

The shift from performance to presence is a design challenge, and solving it will be key to building emotional trust with AI. This means designing intuitive interfaces that interpret emotional cues.

Mobile UX

8 months ago

Hug Me Chair Is An Emotive, Ergonomic Seating That Blends Comfort, Style, and Sculptural Design - Yanko Design

The "Hug Me" Chair embodies three decades of Steel-Land’s journey, transforming resilient storytelling into design, while inviting emotional and physical comfort through its embrace-like form.

UX design

Graphic design

fromCreative Bloq

8 months ago

10 tips for illustrations that carry emotion from a bestselling children's book artist

Visual language in children's book illustrations conveys tone and mood through line, shape, and color.

Mimic's hands-on approach to humanoid teaching bridges emotion and AI through wearable input - Yanko Design

Designing emotionally resonant technology is crucial as AI and robotics integrate further into human life.

Mimic emphasizes interactive, hands-on learning between humans and robots to build emotional connections.

#ai-development

UX design

Designing for emotional residue over functional outcomes

Emotional residueâthe lasting impression of care and understandingâwill become essential in a world dominated by automated and commoditized product development.

UX design

Designing for emotional residue over functional outcomes

Emotional residue becomes a vital aspect of product design in an era of automated software engineering.

UX design

Designing for emotional residue over functional outcomes

Emotional residueâthe lasting impression of care and understandingâwill become essential in a world dominated by automated and commoditized product development.

UX design