On 10/18/07, Christopher Fahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you clarify what is meant by "value-based design"? And what is > meant by a user's or a designer's "underlying values"?
That's a good question. As I understand the term "value-based design" it means a style of design that emphasizes the creation of certain human values, such as aesthetic appreciation, feelings of connectedness, sense of accomplishment, and so on. These so-called "soft" values are always tricky to measure and rarely prioritized in the design methods I'm familiar with. They're also often cited as key success factors in things such as consumer product design, social network design, and design of human use-spaces such as malls, museums, and technology-rich real-world interactions (e.g. enhanced signs, location-aware mobile devices, etc.) As to "underlying values" this is where I see (potential) contention in that the designer's and user's values may not even have an overlap, let alone be the same. I wonder if the original author is being too casual or speaking broadly in an attempt to make a point. What do you think? ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
