right on... "The business use—the specific goal that motivated the client or sponsor to > initially fund the work—often fades away, sometimes quickly," he says. "In > some ways, you might argue that aesthetic value—for an enduring design, at > least—is the only lasting value, since over time functional needs can change > and business moves on to the next goal." Approaching heresy at a time when > aesthetic quality is the last thing we are supposed to consider, Bierut goes > so far as to modestly propose that "just making something look nicer" or > "replacing something ugly with something not so ugly" is an admirable goal > for designers.
As Dori Tunstall, design teacher and anthropologist, says: "There is an > inherent intelligence to beauty, which is about the depth and passion we > feel for the world." Design thinkers like to wax lyrical about the elegance > of their strategic thinking as a form of design in its own right, as though > this could ever be a substitute. They can keep it— in 2108, if there are > museums then, no one will queue to see a strategy. Give me something > tangible, something brilliant and extraordinary that illuminates our > perception of what human life can be. For that, we still need designers. ________________________________________________________________ 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
