I'm on the same page with Todd, when he says "Stop using consistency, start talking about predictability"... but only to make a point another point (that we've discussed in a previous thread http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=29454#29454):
One could argue that %u2014 given a context %u2014 "disruption" can actually be good: if things are too predictable, sudden changes of patterns can grab people's attention back. I remember watching this interview by Bruce Sterling ( http://www.technologyreview.com/video/design ) when his talking about design... the interview all brilliant, but the piece I wanted to brought up was this: "I went down once into the accelerator in cern in geneva. and when we were driving around the accelerator ring in an electric golf cart and the guy was explaining that they are out, you know, pursuing the pi meson or whatever, he said, you know quite often we have accidents down here because, people are driving the 27km line of this tube and they just zone out and crash into the wall, so I said why don't you just put in some murals to break the visual monotony, and he just starred like I had come from mars, and I said look, its lit 24 hours right, why don't you put in some house plants, I mean just kind of humanize the interface a little bit, I mean this is so punishingly monotonous that you are actually harming people. the guy's brain couldn't go there, its a physics instrument, you can't paint it!%u201D Ok, putting in simple words "predictability, but NOT monotony = Usability! { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer designing clear, understandable communication by carefully structuring, contextualizing, and presenting data and information mobile ::: 86 13671503252 website ::: http://designative.info/ aim ::: itamarlmedeiros skype ::: designative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34308 ________________________________________________________________ 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
