I think we can say that the Aesthetic over Usability has some logic holes in it.
I think I felt that emotion over logic wasn't enough, or did not articulate well enough in practice and felt that the a over u articulation hopefully would do that. So I'll concede for now that the dichotomy fails and we can move on. I won't concede though that there are areas of aesthetics and emotion that are not included under even the broadest definition or focus of usability. -- dave On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jared Spool <jsp...@uie.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Gilberto Medrano <gmedr...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> And even the motivational power of connotation serves a function in >> design. I just can't separate aesthetics from "usability" that easily. >> >> > And that was my point. Going back to David's original principal of Beauty > over Usability, I too am having trouble seeing the tension between the two. > > Jared > > Jared M. Spool > User Interface Engineering > 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 > e: jsp...@uie.com p: +1 978 327 5561 > http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: @jmspool > > -- Dave Malouf http://davemalouf.com/ http://twitter.com/daveixd http://scad.edu/industrialdesign http://ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
