Manufactured Pleasures: Psychological Responses to Design

Introduction: psychological responses to design psychological explanations. Part 1 Nature or culture?: biological explanations preferences for landscape personal spaces. Part 2 Form and design: formal laws of beauty the good gestalt complexity and familiarity - Berlyne's theory. Part 3 Meaning and design: meaning and emotion the unconscious meanings of objects the classification of meanings objects as symbols of the self. Part 4 Function and design: ergonomics and the effectiveness of design making sense of visual displays communicating with the computer. Part 5 Form, meaning, function: colour multi-model perception form, meaning and function conclusions.