Comments on: An Aesthetic Confrontation http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/an-aesthetic-confrontation/ Musings on interaction design and culture Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:16:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Geoff http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/an-aesthetic-confrontation/#comment-4032 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:35:08 +0000 http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/?p=910#comment-4032 A question: you suggest that:
“At the end of the day, we are successful if we have helped designers make interactions that are more aesthetic, not if we win academic turf wars.”
But judging from your case studies it would seem that designers are already producing aesthetic interactions. Isn’t the goal for HCI theory to catch up with “in the wild” practice? Or to make explicit what is implicit within practice so as to better support future developments? (OK, that’s two questions)
I guess I’m struggling with the sense that HCI still behaves as if it leads/owns the production of computer technology whereas the evidence would suggest that democratisation has seen tech production (particularly software) appropriated by practitioners from diverse fields – fields without the baggage of HCI, and which have no need for articles with titles like: “What is beautiful is usable” and “Attractive things work better” (cringe)

]]> By: Geoff http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/an-aesthetic-confrontation/#comment-4031 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:20:20 +0000 http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/?p=910#comment-4031 It’s alarming that the “Visual Aesthetics in HCI and Interaction Design” entry is such a HCI cliche, but it’s admirable that the HCI field permits the kind of public discourse that you have engaged in.

I really enjoyed your commentary. I hope that it’s the foundation of a future book :)

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