Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why beauty matters to IxD (a blog compilation)
> Uday, I have to admit I struggled with the overly academic nature of > the 1st pieces. But when I got to part 3, I was blown away. Your > quarter of story, performance, utility and style are so on target, I > wanted to yell hurray Wow, thanks Dave!! Glad you found the third part inspiring :-) The other material is a bit heavy for some...and that's the "reduced" version from the original 40 page thesis! hehe. > No schooling. I'm self taught. It's interesting that you feel > forced to characterize designers by their schooling, so many of us in > IxD have no formal training in it or other design. I'm an I don't feel "forced to"... I just do it naturally :-) I am more biased towards "design schooling" for various reasons. But I've worked with many who have no formal degrees, self-taught like yourself, and I learned a great deal from them, like Andrei at Involution (we even taught a course together at SJSU), and others at Adobe, Oracle, etc. I have great respect for those who practice good design, even if it's learned in "the real world" at the school of hard knocks. I just find my education path enormously influential as that's how I met my first mentors who I feel still affect me today...as you have just read in the articles ;-) -uday 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why beauty matters to IxD (a blog compilation)
Uday, I have to admit I struggled with the overly academic nature of the 1st pieces. But when I got to part 3, I was blown away. Your quarter of story, performance, utility and style are so on target, I wanted to yell hurray Thank you for sharing. I hope others skip back to the top of the thread and give all the articles a read. -- dave ps, I saw your "David Malouf Reader" ... nice. No schooling. I'm self taught. It's interesting that you feel forced to characterize designers by their schooling, so many of us in IxD have no formal training in it or other design. I'm an anthropologist (BA UC Berkeley) and while it aids me in my ability to think about the etic, I don't really see it as a fundamental influencer. My mentors past and present have been much more powerful. I wish I could have a degree that lists them all and what they contributed to my education. That would be cool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=27633 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Why beauty matters to IxD (a blog compilation)
This is really splendid. "Designers have a profound responsibility to ensure that designed interactions contribute positively to our personal and collective sense of being human. " Illustrates everything about why I wanted to move away from merely coding to actually engaging people. I'll be reading this with great interest! Sincerely, Scott On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Uday Gajendar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awhile back a question was put to the ixda list: does aesthetics/ > beauty matter to IxD? > > I've finally compiled on my blog some key thoughts on this, which date > back to 2001 while writing my graduate thesis at CMU about beauty as > an experiential value of user-product interactions (and iterated in > various papers/talks I've given at IDSA, IA Summit, and most recently > last fall's World Design Congress in SF). > > I hope ixda readers find this compilation thought-provoking and > useful... > > > Introductory post: > http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=107 > > > Some interpretations of beauty for user experience: > http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=111 > > > An integrative aesthetic experience: > http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=110 > > (more will be published about this last topic in an upcoming issue of > Interactions ;-) > > > > Enjoy, > > Uday Gajendar > Sr. Interaction Designer > Voice Technology Group > Cisco | San Jose > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1 408 902 2137 > > > 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 > -- 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison 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
[IxDA Discuss] Why beauty matters to IxD (a blog compilation)
Awhile back a question was put to the ixda list: does aesthetics/ beauty matter to IxD? I've finally compiled on my blog some key thoughts on this, which date back to 2001 while writing my graduate thesis at CMU about beauty as an experiential value of user-product interactions (and iterated in various papers/talks I've given at IDSA, IA Summit, and most recently last fall's World Design Congress in SF). I hope ixda readers find this compilation thought-provoking and useful... Introductory post: http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=107 Some interpretations of beauty for user experience: http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=111 An integrative aesthetic experience: http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=110 (more will be published about this last topic in an upcoming issue of Interactions ;-) Enjoy, Uday Gajendar Sr. Interaction Designer Voice Technology Group Cisco | San Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 408 902 2137 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
