Interaction Design

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1. AESTHETICS OF INTERACTION DESIGN

As being a designer I always try to design something new, creative and interactive. Most of the people think that designers are born to modify and beautify things, which is totally wrong designers give directions of living; they transform the ugly into beautiful things. I have a deep interest in aesthetics and that I am tackling with the concept of aesthetics on a daily basis, in words as well as in drawings, movies, prototypes and other artifacts of interaction design. In this era the whole design field is all about interactive designs for that we have to deal with aesthetics of interactive design.

1.1 AESTHETICS

I have read the Journal „SPECIAL ISSUE ON DESIGNING FOR AESTHETICS OF INTERACTION’ and attempt to provide an overview of current research in the Aesthetics of Interaction.

Aesthetics is the study of beauty in nature. The best designs usually 'look good‟ 'aesthetically pleasing'. The aesthetics are usually accomplished by the shape, texture, and colour, type of material, symmetry and simplicity of the repeated pattern used in the design.

Aesthetics is a concept not easily broken down into simpler ideas, making it difficult to explain. When we speak of something that creates an aesthetic experience, we are usually talking about some form of art; yet the mere fact that we are discussing a work of art does not guarantee that we are also discussing aesthetics the two are not equivalent. Not all works of art necessarily create an aesthetic experience, for example when we look at a painting to determine how much we can sell it for. Just think how we beautify things in our mind and this aesthetic design sense should require achieving interactive designs.

Aesthetics is basically related t...

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