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The art of designing user interfaces |
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| Javier Roca. Madrid-28th June 2002 | |||||||||
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Summary:
User interface design has come under increasing pressure from disciplines that work with apparently tangible data, including cognitive science, usability, ergonomics, and industrial design. However important these disciplines may be for future user interface designers, the binding element in product design is the act of shaping. That which provides the “look” is the only part of the design process also capable of supplying wit, elegance and aesthetic satisfaction. The clear distinction maintained between rational and functional aspects on one hand and aesthetic quality on the other signified by the famous credo, “form follows function,” has been replaced by today’s adapted phrase, “function can take any form.” The computer interface, in semiotic terms, acts as a code that carries cultural messages in a variety of media. As we experience an aesthetic shift from traditional art forms to pluralistic art forms of the current complex society, it has become apparent that social life and cultural needs play an active role in determining function, yet at the same time functionality affects contemporary culture. Culture no longer tries, In Jameson words, to "make it new," but rather recycles and quotes past media content, artistic styles and the use of visual forms borrowed from photography, cinema, television, animation, comic strips and technical illustrations. |
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Presentation:
“The Art of Designing User Interfaces” workshop will offer participants an overview of developments in digital art practices of the last two decades as a tool to develop a visual vocabulary and as a preparation for personal exploration in two major areas: interactivity and art. The workshop will provide a user interface analysis from diverse perspectives and from some of the most influential theories and trends in media art and visual culture such as fine arts, critical theory, linguistics and media studies. Relevant topics such as deconstruction, postmodernism and semiotics will be addressed as a means of understanding how culture and technology come together to generate new interactive media that go beyond convention. Participants will learn conceptual strategies and creative possibilities for working in new media, and the visual, social and psychological impact of the "Digital Revolution" on our culture, especially in interaction design. The workshop will address issues and concepts such as metaphors, Pierce's semiotics (signs), graphical variables, nonlinear interfaces, style, layering and fragmentation, hybridism, hyperrealism, montage and visualization. |
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