I thought the talk/paper was excellent. While I do not believe that
there is only one way to get to an effective end product - I think
that Cooper's proposal is a sound step forward that will hopefully be
embraced by the Agile community.
Dave, I also had to wonder - what is wrong with "analytical and
empirical" work?
From you comments, I gather (and please correct me if I'm wrong :-)
) - that you don't think that they are part of the artistic process.
Based on my coursework with working artists - they are very much a
part of the artistic process.
I think Cooper's process description leaves plenty of room for
aesthetics to be part of the work. While he doesn't mention it
explicitly, he talks of vision, strategy, etc. Also, within the
generative process, there is definitely a place for aesthetics (to
adopt some of his and agile's terminology).
Although, I would agree that more whole-brained thinking terminology
might be added (He did seem to lean toward left-brained terminology
more than right or whole-brained.)
Just my thoughts based on a quick read. It is an excellent article.
Alot of the meat is after page 20.
Thanks for bringing the article to our attention. Also, in a separate
email, I will describe an art school activity/project that I thought
of based on your email.
-Donna Fritzsche
Ontologist, Information Architect, occasional Interaction Designer
The ONE thing that I feel the cooper piece has not evolved enough towards is
where I have left the standard world of software design and its very tacit
view of the world where at best user-centeredness is mostly about fit and
efectiveness towards issues of humanity, humaness, and aesthetics. But
mostly importantly where is the question of "why?" why build X in the first
place? This question which is so important to the "authentic interaction
designer" as Alan calls us (or is it them?) is missing from his piece. Also,
there is no mention of aesthetics and in fact a push that the interaction
designer is "analytical and empirical" which in my mind is as "inauthentic"
as an interaction designer can be.
What are you thoughts?
-- dave
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http://scad.edu/industrialdesign
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