Aesthetics or Ergonomics?
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- tron2k3
The question is Ergonomics or Aesthetics in Web Interface Design?
As this is a design portal which do you put first? web usability or design appearance?
Give examples of your own work or pieces you have come across, which are one extreme to the other
- JamesEngage0
form follows function or something?
Don't apply loads of graphics to jazz up a non-entity
- vespa0
and entertainment / visual appeal can be functions to an appropriate audience. work out who the audience is, design to their needs.
- mirola0
well i get back pain fairly easy so ergonomics for me. no rsi here
- ********0
A balance of the both, perhaps usability, navigation...etc is of more importance, because we cannot physically touch a website like we can a book, so we rely on the computer to "turn the page" so to speak, so this must not be complicated affair, and because you cannot appreciate print qualities such as typography on the internet.
- JamesEngage0
i think you do appreciate typography... just differently
- JamesEngage0
although... I'm not sure I've ever seen a beautiful piece of type on the web?!?
- ********0
When has it never been both?
- ********0
I don't know, take the type were using verdana (me thinks) in this box...dump!
- ********0
The aesthetics add value, the ergonomics efficency, so yeah it is both, isn't it?!
- tron2k30
Do you not find sometimes that you come across a website thats designed by a well known agency, that the appearance is amazing but you just cannot find your way around the website? and theres no direction to it!!
Then there's good old Jakob Neilsen who believes that usability is all about file size and simplicity.
What is the recipe to good design?
All designers seem to comment on each others work but what does the end user, sitting at their home computer think? do they even care?
- ********0
Depends on what your going for and whom the client is?
- tron2k30
Yes, but do we really know who the end user really is, its usually the client telling us who they think they are.
- unfittoprint0
form encloses function.
concept > structure > design
- tron2k30
Have you ever come across sites where you feel the form doesn't suit the clients function or identity, and it seems like the designer has just discovered a new trend or new technology and wishes to experiment with it.