Nr 21/2024 Emocje i projektowanie
1 Navigating the Emotional Landscape

Nr 21/2024 Emocje i projektowanie

Biblioteka
  1. Wstęp 21

  2. Nawigowanie w krajobrazie emocji

  3. Projektowanie przyjemności użytkownika w relacjach z przedmiotami

  4. Komizm a dizajn. Śmiech jako krytyka i terapia

  5. Aby emocje znów były wyjątkowe

  6. Relacje emocjonalne z rzeczami

  7. Emocjonalna dolina osobliwości


1 Navigating the Emotional Landscape

“If one thing can be said about design, it is that its relevance to the individual and to humanity at large – its purpose, meaning, success, or failure – depends on the extent to which it satisfies human needs” [Desmet&Fokkinga, 2020: 1]. Products, services, buildings, systems, and all other human-made entities are essentially instruments for need satisfaction. In this article, Pieter Desmet introduces a typology of fundamental needs and demonstrated how it can inform design innovation. This typology includes thirteen psychological needs and fifty-two related sub-needs (four for each fundamental need). These fundamental needs are universal; everyone has them. To flourish, all our needs must be sufficiency satisfied. In this article, the author demonstrates how the typology can be used as a resource for user-centered design with a focus on happiness and well-being. It provides a language that can support communication with clients, within design teams, with end-users, and other stakeholders. It can be used as a basic source of inspiration and to operationalize the well-being impact of existing or new designs. Moreover, for design innovation, need dilemmas are “golden nuggets” for developing solutions that are both novel and meaningful. 
 
Keywords: 
human needs, happiness, well-being, design innovation, typology