Hygge for you life

The latest MoMA Design Store catalog has a combination candle/matchbox which they describe as follows: ‘The Scandinavian custom “hygge,” meaning cozy togetherness, inspired Walton to create this paraffin candle with a convenient matchbox built in at the bottom.’ Hygge. It’s always interesting when words start to spread beyond their land of origin and describe concepts more succinctly, or even concepts that aren’t described at all.

Searching around it transpires that ‘hygge‘, pronounced ‘hooga’, is more used to express people getting together or cosy situations rather than objects. Either way it strikes me that hygge would be a good adjective for most interfaces to aspire towards.