"I also think this sounds a little strange... shouldn't we design for our specific medium? "
I think this is kind of the point - don't choose the medium until you know what has to be accomplished. That said, of course the medium impacts the design. But it should not be the sole (or major) determining factor when making design decisions, IMO. Jeff On Nov 13, 2007 11:23 AM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also think this sounds a little strange... shouldn't we design for > our specific medium? The medium dictates how the user/viewer will > interact with the product, and thus effect the design. I don't see > any way around that.... > > Design for TV is intrinsically different than design for print, than > for web, etc ... Each medium has it's own restrictions and > strengths... > > To bring that back to technology, each medium also has it's own set of > technology. The technologies usually represent, at some level, how > that medium works, without understanding them and designing for them > we'd be designing posters for website ... doesn't really make sense. > > How would you design software without considering the keyboard, mouse, > and monitor? Or for that matter, OS based form elements? Screen > size? > > Picking the "best stone" in this case means picking the best > technology for your product, but you still have to pick one, and it > will still change the design. > > > > On Nov 13, 2007 10:23 AM, Jeff White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doesn't seem strange to me at all. I'm thinking the sculptor has an > > idea of what she wants to make and picks the best stone for the task > > at hand. > > > > On Nov 13, 2007 7:50 AM, Adrian Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 12 Nov 2007, at 21:57, Bryan Minihan wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > In a perfect world, the technology should have no effect on the > > > > design. > > > [snip] > > > > > > Isn't that like saying "stone should have no effect on sculpture", > > > "paints should have no effect on portraiture"? > > > > > > Seems somewhat strange to me... > > > > > > Adrian > > > > > -- > Matt Nish-Lapidus > email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl > Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
