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
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