Thoughts on Interaction Design

Chapter Five. Shaping Aesthetics to Inform Experience

Designers are in the unique position to improve all aspects of human life, including the visual, emotional, and experiential. Interaction Design should be desirable—beautiful, elegant, and appropriate—regardless of the medium chosen to visualize a solution. Visual form can be considered one of the most basic methods of communicating design solutions, and the associated field of Industrial Design has a relatively long period of formal development which can be directly applied to the creation of Interaction Design solutions.

While the roots of Industrial Design lie in the Industrial Revolution, ...