my rant by dfd
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You can touch someone's heart no matter what you do.
Whether it's hodling the door for someone in a wheel chair, giving the change you were gonna buy a coffee with to a homeless person ... I don't see any reasons why you coudn't with design.
Think of music for instance. Regardless of who composed it, whether it's candy rappers or good indie rock, it's a powerful medium and has the ability to touch people hearts. We all know this. Now, I'm not saying don't focus on the lyrics, or the meaning of the song for that matter, but think about the last time you heard a song playing somewhere, and it reminded you of someone, or a place/time you were with a person that you fell for.
Designing to touch someone's heart doesn't necessarily mean that the content is irrelevant. It's about the potential of this medium, like anything else to help people remember certain events, people or feelings.
It's something that we as designers can do, maybe even without having that intent. But in the end, it may just uncover some emotions from someone's heart for whatever reason. We can unconsciously dig up feelings and memories from people with our work. This applies to everything we do, not only as designers.
So why couldn't we touch someone's heart with design?
But then, there's the commercial side of it ... which still, perhaps in some ways has the ability do do the same. I've just never had the opportunity to feel anything from it except for perhaps a note on bad colour choice or poor use of typography.