Four Pleasures Framework

For your final design in Project One: Experience Enrichment, you will need to carry out a four-pleasures analysis similar to the poster here.

Don't forget to read Patrick Jordan's Nov 1997 article: Putting pleasure into products. IEE Review, Vol 43 No 6 pp 249-252.

Psycho-pleasure: Metaphor + Analogy

Psycho Pleasure: Funny?

©1995 Kenji Kawakami. Chindōgu: Un-useless Japanese Inventions. Book + website + flash movie.

©2001 Ted VanCleave. Totally absurd inventions: America's Goofiest Patents. Book + Website.

History of useless inventions on DesignBoom

These images are NOT here as examples of what you should do for Project One: Experience Enrichment, but rather what you should NOT do!!!!

I am hopeful though that the fun that these "unuseless" inventions deliver would inspire you into conceptualizing useful products which would enhance the daily lives of your target consumers.

Psycho Pleasure: Discovery

©2003 Monica Bonvicini. Don’t Miss a Sec.

Psycho Pleasure: Metaphor

©2002 Toyota Motor Corp + Sony Corp. POD: Personalization on Demand.


©1993 Philippe Starck for Heller. Excalibur Toilet Brush.

©2001 Koninklijke Philips Electronics + Douwe Egberts. Philips Senseo.