Visual language is a set of practices using images to communicate concepts. Like verbal language, visual language allows people to visualize their thinking through images. A visual language has basic elements like line, shape, color, and motion that can be identified, selected, and applied to any visual situation. Understanding these elements is central to visual disciplines. Examples of visual language used in couples' products include wearables that allow partners to send haptic messages like hugs, and communicators that transmit light shows created by a person's breath or kiss. Further research on visual language for couples could include studying real couples, interviewing experts, examining couple-focused designs, and playing computer games that simulate relationship experiences.

1. Area of interest Yuyin Chen

2. Visual language in design Visual language is a set of practices by which images can be used to communicate concepts. Creation of an image to communicate an idea presupposes the use of a visual language. Just as people can 'verbalize' their thinking, they can 'visualize' it. A visual language with a fundamental structure can be clearly identified, selected and applied in any visual situation. Defining and understanding the basic elements of this language and how to apply them is at the very centre of all visual disciplines. The basic elements in visual language is : Line, shape, color, motion, texture, pattern, direction, orientation, scale, angle, space and proportion.

3. Market - Couples ‘Love is very universal and desire is even more so. Words and imagery that reference these themes can have a very strong impact on people.’ - Kelly Breslin

5. Cheating / betrayal

6. Singles

7. Dating

8. On the pull

9. Divorce

10. Gay / lesbian

11. Ambiguous relationship

13. Couples’ products contain visual language Hug shirt This wearabletelecommunications device uses Bluetooth and our cell phones to send each other all of the sensations of a warm loving hug just as you were sending a text message. Kiss communicator It responds with a slight glow to invite you to blow into it and create your "message" in the form of an animated light sequence as the device responds to your breath. The "message" shows while you blow and if you are happy with it, you simply relax your grip and it is sent to the corresponding Communicator. Sensors in the handheld device pick up your kiss, translate the impulse into a series of randomly lit LEDs, which are then transmitted as a slow glow to your partner’s device.

14. Interaction Japanese love hotels The designer believes that sex should be something playful. He infused all of his designs with bright colors and cute features, appealing to the child in all of us.

15. Interaction Computer Games Face and experience something that would never happen in your life with Sims.

16. What to do next? Secondary research: Books, internet, journal, magazines, academic writing, films, TV shows Primary research: Take pictures of couples in daily life, like on street, in cinema, in club Questionaries of couples Have interview with professors Contact with the designer who does couple work Take pictures of couples’ products in store More……