Interaction Design Trends 2015 & 2016

Meaningful Delight
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Seeing Delight in Context
Before analyzing the examples, let’s talk a little about how “delightful”
interactions fit into design as a whole.
Writing for Treehouse Blog, Aaron Walter explains delightful design
through Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a classic theory of
psychology published in 1943. The theory essentially ranks the priority
of human needs, starting with fundamentals like food and oxygen,
and topping it off later with inessentials like self-actualization.
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Converting the idea to web design, Walters proposes a new hierarchy
of needs:
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