This is really splendid. "Designers have a profound responsibility to ensure that designed interactions contribute positively to our personal and collective sense of being human. " Illustrates everything about why I wanted to move away from merely coding to actually engaging people.
I'll be reading this with great interest! Sincerely, Scott On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Uday Gajendar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awhile back a question was put to the ixda list: does aesthetics/ > beauty matter to IxD? > > I've finally compiled on my blog some key thoughts on this, which date > back to 2001 while writing my graduate thesis at CMU about beauty as > an experiential value of user-product interactions (and iterated in > various papers/talks I've given at IDSA, IA Summit, and most recently > last fall's World Design Congress in SF). > > I hope ixda readers find this compilation thought-provoking and > useful... > > > Introductory post: > http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=107 > > > Some interpretations of beauty for user experience: > http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=111 > > > An integrative aesthetic experience: > http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=110 > > (more will be published about this last topic in an upcoming issue of > Interactions ;-) > > > > Enjoy, > > Uday Gajendar > Sr. Interaction Designer > Voice Technology Group > Cisco | San Jose > ------------------------------ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1 408 902 2137 > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison ________________________________________________________________ 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
