Gender, Design and Marketing: How Gender Drives Our Perception of Design and Marketing [Hardcover]

'...I understand and applaud Gloria Moss' thoroughness. She's putting forth some game changing information that's going to ruffle some feathers. But it's information we desperately need...This book will change the way you look at design. The results are a wake up call for everyone involved in advertising and design. I'm not talking just a little alarm clock. I'm talking a gigantic gong reverberating around the globe...I can't say enough about Gender, Design and Marketing...the book is worth twice its price.' --Holly Buchanan, Marketing to Women Online, June 2009

Finally...proof. Proof that men and women react differently to shapes, colors and messaging. Proof that there are clearly different methods and techniques to reach each gender. This book should be mandatory reading for any advertiser or designer who wants to improve their chances of selling their products or services to a male, or female, audience. Great read. --Thomas J. Jordan, Chairman, Chief Creative Officer, Hoffman York Advertising, Chicago

'An insightful new book from Gloria Moss, Gender, Design and Marketing: How Gender Drives our Perception of Design and Marketing probes the unique decision-making style of women and draws some provocative conclusions about the impact of design.' --Barbara Apple Sullivan, Managing Partner of Sullivan

Product and service designers place increasing emphasis on the colour, form and appearance of what their organization offers and the language with which they describe it.Gloria Moss' erudite, sophisticated and fascinating book, guides the reader to an understanding of the way gender influences our visual perception.In this wide-ranging book, the author explores design, visual aesthetics, language and communication, by drawing on an exhaustive range of primary sources of research from psychology, design, branding and communication. The lessons that emerge offer challenges to organizations both in the way in which their design and marketing is perceived by men and women, as well as how the make-up of their workforce may limit their ability to appreciate and address the diversity of customers' preferences.'Gender, Design and Marketing' offers researchers, designers, brand and marketing specialists an enhanced understanding of gender; the ways in which an organization's actions can engage or dissuade the men and women that make up its market; and how to increase the breadth and depth of appeal for all products.

Gloria Moss combines a background in HR with a unique understanding of the impact of nationality and gender on graphic, product and web design. She currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer, Human Resources at Bucks New University and Visiting Professor at ESG Paris. Previously, Gloria has held senior positions at Courtaulds Acetate and Eurotunnel. Her clients have included M&S, BT, Bounty and Ford.