Emotional Design
Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by Don Norman
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Design, Design, and Art.
Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, as Donald Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating book, which has garnered acclaim everywhere from Sci...
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