For a long time I have wondered, like many of you, why products are decorated with childlike pictures, teddy bears, cuddly toys, Hello Kitty & Pokemon etc.

Everything from phone covers, kitchen trays, appliances, furniture etc.     Is it the mentality of the designers or the customers?

 

people like "cuteness". 

A well-to-do Thai couple visited our home a few years ago in a sedan covered with large Hello Kitty stickers pasted all over......along with seat coverings/head rests of the same.  They were about 30 years old.   A good gift for a Thai university female student is a stuffed animal.   Our US-based daughter was into stuff like that......but outgrew it when she was about 14.  Different strokes.

Recently I read an article in an established "newspaper". It was about a survey about business emails.

Over 50% of people though if business emails don't include emoticons, then something is missing.

What a strange world...