Apart from the recent "Design & Emotion" work Don Norman has been pushing forward (mentioned in the link Mike Myles just posted), I would definitely recommend taking a look at the work of Noam Tractinsky, from Ben-Gurion University:
http://www.ise.bgu.ac.il/faculty/noam/research/aesthetics.html His paper "Aesthetics and Apparent Usability: Empirically Assessing Cultural and Methodological Issues" (Tractinsky, N. 1997, CHI 97 Conference Proceedings, Atlanta, March 22-27, 1997, ACM, New York, pp. 115-122) would still be a reference to me in terms of the relationship between Aesthetics and Usability. Cheers, { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer designing clear, understandable communication by carefully structuring, contextualizing, and presenting data and information mobile ::: 86 13671503252 website ::: http://designative.info/ twitter ::: designative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44234 ________________________________________________________________ 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
