Design and emotion: Contributions to the emotional design

Abstract

This chapter has the purpose to contribute to the scientific organization and assist in the process of building a theory related to the interrelation of design and emotion. It is intended that the issues addressed here raise discussions and lead to deepening these relations. In this sense this text presents aspects and situations surrounding the design in contemporaneity from, the cultural and economic relations, the meanings of the object and design of products in material culture, the aspects of industrialization and globalization, the senses of excitement and consumption and through the establishment of discourses concerning the design and the role of designers in contemporary.