Luke Kowalski — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:08 GMT

Very insightful, refreshing, and honest take on what it takes to get good IA through (without loss of fidelity) in a complex ecosystem. If I may add a few points that deal with “attitudes, motivations, and approaches” taken by interactions designers and architects, both good and bad, perhaps adding more tools to our arsenal to be used in enterprise design exercises:
http://blogs.oracle.com/lukekowalski/2006/07/31#a28
The linked-in CHI prez (“Design is the Easy Part”) also talks about the same challenges, where focus on stakeholders and organizational dynamics is often more imortant than the raw data/design ideas…

Luke Kowalski — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:08 GMT

So many of these are universal. They apply to visual presentation quality, too (Interface, industrial, or architectural design). All of the design sciences rely on a base vocabulary and style that people seem afraid to deconstruct…Good to see this enumarated on boxesandarrows.

One book that deals with the perception of art, nature, and style (written word) comes from Herman Miller. Normally known for his smutty trilogy / Tropic of Cancer he actually wrote a very different work titled “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”. It taught more about perception than any art history or cognitive psych texts…
:)
I wander if there is a list of “Related Fiction and Non-Fiction Books for Designers”? I would put that on it in addition to all the Alexanders, Normans, Karwowskis, Coopers, Derridas, Kierkegaards, etc.

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