[IxDA Discuss] Aesthetics and Interaction/Usability

2009-07-29 Thread Alan Ho
I'm doing some study on the relevancy on Aesthetics to HCI, mainly how Aesthetics can help improve usability of software. Does anyone has any knowledge or would like to express their views on this? Welcome to the Interaction Design A

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aesthetics and Interaction/Usability

2009-07-29 Thread Mike Myles
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=44186 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44234 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aesthetics and Interaction/Usability

2009-07-29 Thread Itamar Medeiros
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 H

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aesthetics and Interaction/Usability

2009-07-30 Thread Callie Neylan
Donald Norman has written about this. Callie Callie Neylan / Senior Interactive Designer / NPR / cney...@npr.org / 202 513 3672 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org U