February 2010 | carsten knoch: essays + ideas

Complexity and emotion in design

May 3, 2016February 5, 2010Technology Work

I like some of Don Norman‘s (now slightly older) theses about complexity and emotion in design. In an online essay entitled Emotional Design: People and Things he writes, Products differ in their appeal on the three design dimensions, but … [read more]

Why Apple’s iPad will be very, very successful

April 24, 2016February 2, 2010Technology

Sometimes, the prevailing discourse on the Internet makes one want to despair. Blog post after blog post of the same drivel. It often feels as though the ‘blogosphere’ is a little like The Island, a 2005 movie where Ewan McGregor … [read more]