Twenty moods: Holistic typology of human mood states

Emotion deep dive for designers: Seven propositions that operationalize emotions in design innovation

This paper presents a five-day intense course that teaches “emotion-driven design”<br/>(EDD) to graduate students with a broad variety of disciplinary backgrounds at the<br/>Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. We introduce seven principles<br/>drawn from design-relevant emotion knowledge that informed the design of the<br/>course’s...

Touchy-feely: A designerly exploration of haptic representations of three mood states

Human moods are diffuse, elusive, and often difficult to articulate, yet they hold immense potential for wellbeing-centric design because they play a significant role in shaping our everyday life experiences. A person’s mood influences their experiences with a designed system, and in turn, their interactions with the design also influence their...

Demystifying emotion for designers: A five-day course based on seven fundamental principles

This paper introduces a five-day intensive course, conducted over five years from 2018 to 2022, aimed at teaching emotion-driven design (EDD) to graduate students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds at Beijing Normal University. EDD is the practice of designing products or services that are informed by user or consumer emotions and/or aim to...

Mood granularity for design: Introducing a holistic typology of 20 mood states

This paper introduces a holistic typology of 20 mood states that are presented with a componential approach, describing six aspects: subjective feeling, perception, reaction, tendency, liking, and disliking. In addition, each mood is illustrated with a short example narrative and a collection of four images. The typology was generated by...

Researcher introspection for experience-driven design research

We challenge the unquestioning pursuit of the appearance of objectivity and ingrained designer-user dualism in human-centred design research and propose a<br/>resurrection of introspection as a valid approach to investigating subjective experiences. Through comparing epistemic perspectives and reviewing the<br/>histories of introspection in...

The Same Person Is Never the Same: Introducing Mood-Stimulated Thought/Action Tendencies for User-Centered Design

How people think and act is influenced by their transient mood state. Different moods stimulate different (thought/action) tendencies, such as the tendency to be attentive (when cheerful), to be cautious (whenanxious), or to be impatient (when agitated). To support an understandingof how mood can inform user-centered design, this paper reports...

Mood in Experience Design: A Scoping Review

This article presents a comprehensive review of existing literature covering the topic of mood-focused design. It delves into how designers and design researchers currently address mood in the context of experience-driven design. Using a scoping review methodology, we identified and thematically analyzed sixty-six highly relevant articles. Our...