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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. The total engagement of the flow experience is highly immersive and encourages user loyalty. Flow is a highly engaging experience, and strong emotional engagement demands and narrows the user’s attention. Tybout and P. Cafferata (Eds.), 3 Russell, J.

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IA Summit 10 - Richard Saul Wurman Keynote

Boxes and Arrows

I sold in 2002, the same way I’ll sell this banana later on. laughter] Richard Saul Wurman: So how we measure things, how we advertise things, how we describe things are pretty good. Some of you know I started a conference called the “TED conference.&# laughter] But not for eight figures. laughter] Richard Saul Wurman: Ha!