Happiness, what is it actually? Getting freedom from your employer like Google does? That seems to make employees happy. Or a moment of happiness when you visit a beautiful, intuitive site, designed by interaction designers who understand how to pour emotions into pixels? In this article you can read my findings in an exploration of what happiness is or can be. Both offline and online.
Happiness, you can find something about it in the newspaper almost every day. From (measuring instruments for) Gross National Happiness to the Flemish psychiatrist Dirk de Wachter (author of Borderline Times) who says: “Being a little bit unhappy, that seems to me to be a good attitude to life”. Interesting angle, with which I have much more than the ukraine mobile phone number list flood of motivational books and 'happiness on command' courses, such as Jouwbestejaarooit.nu .
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I personally find practice-driven forms of happiness the most interesting. Pieter Desmet is professor of Positive Design at TU Delft. In that role, Pieter focuses on designing emotions. “Our institute is part of the Industrial Design department,” says Desmet. “But in addition to product design, we are mainly concerned with concepts that contribute to your well-being. From product design to service design to gaming.”