Kevin, Not all interactions contain visual elements. what about Voice UI?
Hmm? I think you and I are thinking of aesthetics differently. So I see aesthetics as the primary. Even if form follows function, the functioning of a thing has an aesthetic response as much as the function does. Take the Wii for example. The sheer joy that comes out of using the gestural controller has little to nothing to do with the explicit ID that it is built on. The joy and the beauty is embedded into the interaction itself trumping the form/shape that the interaction is embodied around. But I do agree with you (and much to Andrei's point) that it is so difficult to separate the form from the function in good interaction design, which is why "embodiment" of interaction (form giving) is an important part of interaction design. The dialog between interaction and embodiment is core to interaction design success. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23732 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
