Using symbolic meaning as a means to design for happiness

Using symbolic meaning as a means to design for happiness: The development of a card set for designers

Casais, Mafalda (TU Delft Design Aesthetics)
Mugge, R. (TU Delft Marketing and Consumer Research)
Desmet, P.M.A. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics)

Lloyd, Peter (editor)
Bohemia, Erik (editor)

2016

Using design to improve the lives of people towards a positive flourishing state is the main premise of Positive Design. Our contribution to this growing field focuses on making use of the symbolic meaning that design can have to bolster
human happiness. This paper presents the development of a card set for designers aiming to inspire design for happiness. The card set is explored in three sessions with groups of design educators, design students and design professionals respectively to
collect diversified recommendations to improve its format and use. The resulting SIM toolkit for designers (‘Design with symbolic meaning for user happiness’), composed of a card set and a website, is disclosed and a workshop on how to use it is discussed.

symbolic meaning
positive design
happiness
design toolkit

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e745d9dc-52e1-4721-b659-c272c881bd04

The Design Research Society, London

Proceedings of DRS 2016: Design + Reseach + Society, Future-Focused Thinking, 9

DRS 2016, 2016-06-27 → 2016-06-30, Brighton, United Kingdom

DRS International Conference Series, 2398-3132, 9

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2016 Mafalda Casais, R. Mugge, P.M.A. Desmet