In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well designed product must hit to succeed.

In the experiments I told you about, we have lifted the identity of the Critic, but we still have no idea how the Critic does its job.

Now that title, that phrase, comes from a critic, an early critic, and this is a passage that I just love, and would like to read for you.

I'm the weekly tech critic for the New York Times.

And I saw this really smart critic who I love.

And it goes like this It is not the critic who counts.

Now obviously, the Critic is a key ingredient in what makes us intelligent.

This means that the Critic must have spoken in that animal, and that the Critic must be contained among the dopamine producing neurons on the left, but not among the dopamine producing neurons on the right.

And I thought maybe I should meet a critic of psychiatry to get their view.

This is a pro amateur, or pro am media critic who has this high fan out rate.

We have created such a situation, artificially, by turning on the critic with a flash of light.

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That's from Robert Brustein, the famous drama critic and director, in The New Republic about five years ago.

So we set out to identify the cells in the fly's brain that played the role of the Critic.

Through many such experiments, we were able to narrow down the identity of the Critic to just 12 cells.

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The Facebook era makes it easy to tailor a message by simply blocking a critic or deleting a negative comment.

When my first novel written in English came out in America, I heard an interesting remark from a literary critic.

If the Critic was among the optically activated cells, the result of this intervention should be a change in policy.

Design I love its design.

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And we get it not from a philosopher of art, not from a postmodern art theorist or a bigwig art critic.

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In a situation like this, we would expect the Critic to speak up and to tell the Actor to change its policy.

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We did a design competition, selected a design team.

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Solemn design is often important and very effective design.

I would say not just biological design, but all of the design that we think of as human design.

Be aware in life of good design and bad design.

Speaking about the design every city has its own design.

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Design is the same way. Design has to become that same way.

Now comes the between subjects design, the AB design, the AB testing.