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On distinguishing between art and design…

“One of the big differences between art and design is that art is mostly about commentary — it’s making a statement that you’re expecting other people to contemplate and be moved by, emotionally, or altered by, in terms of their perceptions.”

“Whereas design is really about solving a problem that makes something more pragmatic, and useful, and valuable or valued, and of course you can add qualities of aesthetics to that, that make it also a delight. At the same time, if it fails on the functionality side, all is lost, whereas if it fails on the delight side, it might still fit into a lot of people’s lives in a satisfactory if not an exciting way.”

~ Bill Moggeridge

Source: mcwade.com

Published by Mike Houghton . Post a comment . Nov 29, 2010 . Filed under: Miscellaneous

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Published by Mike Houghton . Post a comment . Nov 04, 2010 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere

It seems about half the people in our group are developers of some sort, and knowing that our tools vary from the ancient but flexible VIM editor to the jazziest tools in Visual Studio and CS, I figured Zeleznik’s programming in “bubbles” wouldn’t be straying too far for most of us.

YouTube video of Bubble UI.
(sorry, don’t know how to embed videos)

If this interests you, and you’re even remotely into math, you should check out Zeleznik’s Hands-On Math UI (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/cv.html)

Published by Bernardo Telles . Post a comment . Nov 02, 2010 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere