Designing for Emotion

In the years since publishing the first edition, emotional design has gone from innovative to essential in designers' toolkits. Aarron Walter once again offers wise, inspiring guidance for the principles of designing for humans, and addresses newer challenges that have emerged for web professionals tasked with reaching an ever-shifting audience.

Packed with engaging case studies and psychologically-grounded principles, Designing for Emotion has never been more relevant for modern business.

WHAT'S NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION?

Learn from updated case studies that push beyond where the web was in 2011 and reflect more of today's concerns such as privacy, representation, and safety. You'll also engage more deeply with your users when you apply takeaways from the new chapter on empathy and inclusion. Finally, make the case for working more thoughtfully in your own company with Aarron's fresh insight into the business value-and impact-of emotional design.

Aarron Walter is senior product and design lead on the COVID response team at Resolve to Save Lives. Previously, he was VP of content at InVision, and founded the UX practice at Mailchimp where he helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. Aarron's design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of major corporations, startups, and venture capital firms. You'll find Aarron sharing thoughts about design on Twitter @aarron, and as the cohost of the Webby nominated Design Better podcast.