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24 alternatives to Emotional Design

Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Emotional Design launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design ▲70

   A look at how games make us feel

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Design for Humans▲231

   An email course about emotional design

   2015 · paulaborowska.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Well-Designed▲71

   How to use empathy to create products people love

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Designing For Emotion▲79

   On brand personality and delighting users

   2015 · abookapart.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Emotional Design▲70

   Learn why you have deep emotions for your Mac or Roomba

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The Design of Everyday Things▲165

   Good, usable design is possible

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Design, Form, and Chaos▲80

   A great source of design inspiration

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Designing the Invisible▲69

   Create great web experiences

   2015 · fivesimplesteps.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Designing Web Apps▲145

   Learn to design experiences your users will love (2nd ed.)

   2015 · nathanbarry.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design▲75

    Sketching and early prototyping design methods

    2016 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Business-Driven Digital Product Design▲127

    A guide on how to create influential user experience

    2020 · fireart.studio · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming▲69

    How can design inspire us to think about our future?

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Digital Design Talks▲177

    Learn from design leaders from around the world

    2021 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Designing for Touch▲88

    A guide for designing touch interfaces

    2015 · abookapart.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Design of Everyday Things▲6

    The essence of usability

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Emotional Branding▲63

    The new paradigm for connecting brands to people

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Seductive Interaction Design▲75

    To use a product should be to fall in love with a product

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Real-Life UX Processes▲85

    Peek inside design at Slack, Autodesk, and others.

    2016 · uxpin.com · its alternatives →

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    Design for Real Life▲82

    Develop inclusive practices

    2016 · abookapart.com · its alternatives →

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    The Project Guide to Enterprise Product Design▲93

    Free e-book. UX best practices from real projects.

    2016 · uxpin.com · its alternatives →

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    Articulating Design Decisions▲64

    Learn to explain your design decisions so people agree!

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Design of Everyday Things▲22

    How product design satisfies or frustrates customers

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Designing Interactions▲91

    Interviews with influential designers

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Designspiration▲135

    Discover and share design inspiration

    2014 · designspiration.com · its alternatives →

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