So, I think we need to deconstruct what we mean by “delight.” I’ve tried to do that in a talk that I’ve been giving. Pleasure, flow and meaning end up commingled. But it’s not like that when you start looking at great digital designs and the great experiences they are part of. I used to think of the framework as being in layers or levels.

I looked at positive psychology, and behavioral economics, and the science of play, and hedonics, and a whole bunch of other things, and came away from all that with a framework in mind for what I call “happy design.” It comes in three flavors: pleasure, flow, and meaning. From there, Ommwriter has been released as an app for Mac, iPad, and PC. Even me! Well, it does get a bit sad when you spend too much time finding bad things in design. This app has interesting beginnings, as it was originally an internal tool for a creative agency in Barcelona, Herraiz Soto & Co. ( The post below was originally published in May, 2012.)Įverybody’s talking about designing for delight. Among the many distraction-free writing apps available for OS X, OmmWriter Dana (Mac App Store link) tries to go the furthest in distancing the writer from his or her computer.Not only is full.

Here’s a talk I did a couple of years ago, but have been doing for a while. And maybe you want to hear my take, since Jared did such a good job of shilling for my framework.

Maybe you just read Jared Spool’s article about deconstructing delight.

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