[comp.cog-eng] aesthetics of the interface

kseshadr@quasar.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri) (05/30/90)

In article <35968@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, thom@dewey (Thom Gillespie) writes:
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>I guess part of my question is 'Are there interface designers who are artists
>
Last Saturday or Sunday's (27 or 28th May) issue of the San Jose Mercury
News had an article about a woman artist who helped design the user
interfaces for Apple's software. In this case, I don't think she had
anything to do with the actual code writing, but suggested what would
constitute a usable friendly interface. 

Kishore Seshadri
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casner@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Stephen Casner) (05/30/90)

The journal Visible Language sometimes has interesting things about
aesthetics. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^

There are some interesting studies of users' affective response to
interfaces:

Nasar, J.L. "Responses to different spatial configurations,"  Human
    Factors, 1981, 23(4), 439-446.

Holynski, M.  "User-adaptive computer graphics,"  International Journal
    of Man-Machine Studies, 1988, 29, 539-548.
    (discovering user preferences with respect to variables such as
     business, complexity, color variety, shape variety, balance,
     symmetry, etc.)

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