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In this paper we illustrate how digital aesthetics is based on symbolic layering and the system of images and imagery. At the same time, we would like to introduce the fundamental susceptibility to the sensitive in the design environment and how it relates back to a culture of the sensi-tive visual. We will address more specifically the aesthetics of images and rêverie in Gaston Bachelard and the use of pathosformels in Aby Warburg's philosophy and art theory. Next, we will attempt to create a relationship be-tween the new interactive techniques of design and somaesthetics and how they represent to date the new worlds of a digital aesthetic. In conclusion, we will try to reiterate the fundamental concept of the sensitive in the digi-tal world.