[Sigia-l] inviting, welcoming, open, approachable?

[David Malouf]

I follow you, but can't agree entirely. What about a doorstop? Does
this have to be pretty and comfortable to the touch? Living in 
Denmark as I do, I've seen far too much great design get in the way
of function. Try and work out the controls on a B&O television if
you're in doubt.

Eric, but then one would go on to say that this isn't "great design". 
Design != form
Design is a holistic solution that incorporates and marries the needs of
users with those of the business. One of the pieces that helps this is
beauty. But beauty has many layers and the presentation layer is but one
facet of beauty. Behavior and Structure also have their own beauty or
further help bring out the beauty of the whole. 

This separation of usability and aesthetics is a bit useless in the end b/c
the whole is what we should be concentrating on, and not the parts. I think
the problem arises b/c too many practitioners (myself included) cannot
themselves do everything to make a whole product so we tend to concentrate
on those elements that we can control instead of on what it means to work
with a team to get the best holistic result. 

-- dave

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