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D MordellThough speaking more generally about usability in web design, the same principles can be applied to e-learning and instructional aesthetics...
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Research proves attractive things work better. How we think cannot be separated from how we feel. The next time a boss, client, or co-worker scoffs at the notion that beauty is an important aspect of interface design, point their peepers here.
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Esen SagynovWe've all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understanding of the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.\nConsider how designers "skin" an information architect's wireframes. Or how the term "eye candy" suggests that visual design is inessential. Our language constrains visual design to mere styling and separates aesthetics and usability, as if they are distinct considerations. Yet, if we shift the conversation away from graphical elements and instead focus on aesthetics, or "the science of how things are known via the senses," we learn that this distinction between how something looks and how it works is somewhat artificial.
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Christine SætreDefending good design - and being picky on the details.... "attractive things work better"!
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Tip NgWe’ve all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understandi
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Tim Mitchell"The more we learn about people, and how our brains process information, the more we learn the truth of that phrase: form and function aren’t separate items."
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hat good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understanding of the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.
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Yet, if we shift the conversation away from graphical elements and instead focus on aesthetics, or “the science of how things are known via the senses,” we learn that this distinction between how something looks and how it works is somewhat artificial.
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how do aesthetic design choices influence understanding and emotions, and how do understanding and emotions influence behavior?
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Another explanation: We want those things we find pleasing to succeed. We’re more tolerant of problems with things that we find attractive.
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Cheryl ColanConsider how designers “skin” an information architect’s wireframes. Or how the term “eye candy” suggests that visual design is inessential. Our language constrains visual design to mere styling and separates aesthetics and usability, as if they are disti
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Jade DiazOne interesting point among many: "We’re more tolerant of problems with things that we find attractive."
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Joan Vinall-CoxA truly valuable and important article about learning
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the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.
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Our language constrains visual design to mere styling and separates aesthetics and usability, as if they are distinct considerations
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“the science of how things are known via the senses,”
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how we perceive and interpret the world
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how people respond to these elements. Our question becomes: how do aesthetic design choices influence understanding and emotions, and how do understanding and emotions influence behavior
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Cognitive science studies how people know things and aesthetics plays a critical role in cognitive processing
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When designing, we must consider how our brain interprets the meaning of color, shadow, and shading. We rarely notice these aesthetic choices, except when people get them wrong:
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how our brain interprets the meaning of things such as color, shadow, shading, and other natural occurrences.
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the more attractive button is likely to be more usable by most people
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“...emotion is not a luxury: it is an expression of basic mechanisms of life regulation developed in evolution, and is indispensable for survival. It plays a critical role in virtually all aspects of learning, reasoning, and creativity. Somewhat surprisingly, it may play a role in the construction of consciousness.” [1]
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According to a 2002 study, the “appeal of the overall visual design of a site, including layout, typography, font size, and color schemes,” is the number one factor we use to evaluate a website’s credibility.
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Attention to design details implies that the same care and attention has been spent on the other (less visible) parts of the product—which implies that this is a trustworthy product.
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The only difference was that one machine’s buttons and screens were arranged more attractively than the other. In both Japan and Israel (where this study was repeated) researchers observed that subjects encountered fewer difficulties with the more attractive machine. The attractive machine actually worked better.
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we can’t actually separate cognition from affect.
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Separate studies in economics and in neuroscience are proving that:
“affect, which is inexplicably linked to attitudes, expectations and motivations, plays a significant role in the cognition of product interaction…the perception that affect and cognition are independent, separate information processing systems is flawed.”
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We’re not nearly as in charge of our decisions as we’d like to believe.
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In the early 1900s, “form follows function” became the mantra of modern architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright changed this phrase to “form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union,” using nature as the best example of this integration.
The more we learn about people, and how our brains process information, the more we learn the truth of that phrase: form and function aren’t separate items. If we believe that style somehow exists independent of functionality, that we can treat aesthetics and function as two separate pieces, then we ignore the evidence that beauty is much more than decoration. Our brains can’t help but agree.
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Sarah Clarkimportance of aesthetics and cognition.
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Marian SteinbachÜber die Rolle des ästhetisch ansprechenden im Interface Design
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giu vicenteWe’ve all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understandi
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Mike StenhouseWhen we think about application design and development, how do you think of visual design? Is it a skin, that adds some value—a layer on top of the core functionality? Or is this beauty something more?
In the early 1900s, “form follows function” became t
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