Am 22.05.2008 um 04:33 schrieb bcantley:
> Of course, I am a design
> theorist.. An addict to form and visual fodder...but I prefer a
> "slick",
> well [visually] designed OS interface. I think OSX and Newton do it
> wonderfully.
Though being no designer, I've discussed exactly this point
in an article called "Lob der Härte" ("A Praise of Toughness")
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27475/1.html
(German only link, sorry), where I argue that good decoration isn't
just decoration but -
- caters to a fundamental human need for esthetics
- makes machinery accessible for people other than specialists
- and, which is essential to me, opens a field where work and
play can freely meet each other
- the last one being of huge relevance to all kinds of discussions
on work/life balance, life in a "post-industrial" society, utopian
ideas about work and play more and more converging, etc. etc.
Intentionally omitting the names of specific OSes I still had to
take a lot of heat from the "my OS is better than your OS" crowd,
but some of the readers actually understood what I was on about.
In here I can openly admit that NewtonOS and OS X to me are
the best examples yet for meaningful decoration in the
aforementioned way. (Oh, and the title of said article is of course
meant to be satire).
Best,
Marcus
http://www.cityinfonetz.de/homepages/hammerschmitt/high.html
http://jpgmag.com/people/MH2
http://concord.antville.org/
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