If on the one hand there are several available guidelines to design functional assistive products, on the other hand there are studies showing that most of the reasons for assistive products' rejection and abandonment have to do with users' emotional responses to the products and their use. Throughout a research carried out with stroke victims it was found that the most mentioned emotion in regard to assistive products and task performance was fear. This paper presents an experiment with graduating design students, where one of the project's requisites was that the developed assistive products should convey the feelings of safety and self-confidence to the users. The results show that, even though being an issue of great importance to stroke victims, students were not accustomed to adopt such an approach to a design problem, suggesting there is a need to rethink and conduct further work in integrating emotional requisites in design briefs.