Designers often find themselves in the dilemma of functionality forgetting the essence of what brings them and others “delight”. There is a lack of designs being produced from a place of pure curious excitement and passion. Coming from this motive, with our project “ Délice de Magie “, we explored designing from delight through various methodologies of exploration and synthesis that allowed us to build a world around a bag of our own creation. The bag itself evidences a design process we call “Feeling-Based Design.”

We present a set of symbolic tools containing practical advice to facilitate decision making for design teams such that they can design from a place of feeling without losing themselves in the process. These tools are evidenced by a workbook used to document and reflect on our design process and the bag we produced as a result. In combination, these products serve to inspire and elaborate on the value and potential outcome of designing with this toolkit.