Exploring Emotional Design

Tag: happiness

How to Be Happy in Business

Post author By Trevor Van Gorp
Post date Jun. 8, 2009
No Comments on How to Be Happy in Business

Over at What Consumes Me, Bud Cadell has a great Venn diagram depicting the three aspects of work that intersect to produce happiness.

Tags affective design, affectivedesign, affectivedesign.org, arousal, bud caddell, design affective, design for emotion, designing emotion, durable fulfillment, emotional design, feelings, fulfillment, happiness, happiness in business, happy in business, how to be happy in business, venn diagram, what consumes me

Emotional Products Emotions & Health Psychology

Happiness is a topic that has been getting a lot of attention lately in design and research circles. One of the difficulties with any discussion around “happiness” is that everyone’s definition of the term differs. This ambiguity leads me to question exactly what it is that designers and researchers are measuring against when they find more or less “happiness”.