Why beauty matters to IxD
From the concluding paragraph of my graduate thesis written in 2001 at Carnegie Mellon (advised by Dick Buchanan): Interaction designers must be concerned with beauty as our environment of human…
Month: March 2008
Part 1: General thoughts on aesthetics
[First in a series of postings about aesthetics and beauty as they pertain to interaction design, and beyond…] Recently the question was raised on the IxDA discussion list, “does aesthetics…
Designing for “appropriateness”
Just saw this information graphic posted on the NYTimes.com site, about the state of the Iraq war. I don’t subscribe to the print edition, but I’m betting this graphic was…
Eames diagram
Found this while surfing around this morning, the classic Eames venn diagram illustrating the areas of intersecting concerns when solving a design problem: the client, the design office, and society…
iPod (and telephone) born today…
Apple Music Event 2001 – The First Ever iPod IntroductionA portable handheld device that can hold 1,000 songs? Nah, it’ll never fly. On this day in 2006, Apple Inc. was…