Re:Why have today's designers stopped dreaming?
by derefr on Sunday April 13, 2014 @02:40PM
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I think the claim is something more like:
• UX is good when it works in tandem with human cognition and psychology.
• HCI science--the study of human cognition and psychology, as it relates to doing UX--can point us toward designs that are objectively better in their human usability.
• A design radical-enough to not look or work like current UX--a novel "UX paradigm"--would, at this point, necessarily be one that ignores what we currently know about HCI. It would therefore, probably, be horrible. (Individual designs from such a novel paradigm could be surprisingly okay, if they manage to find some other local maximum in UX-space--but since the paradigm goes against the grain of human intuition, it wouldn't generate any globally optimal designs.)
• UX is good when it works in tandem with human cognition and psychology.
• HCI science--the study of human cognition and psychology, as it relates to doing UX--can point us toward designs that are objectively better in their human usability.
• A design radical-enough to not look or work like current UX--a novel "UX paradigm"--would, at this point, necessarily be one that ignores what we currently know about HCI. It would therefore, probably, be horrible. (Individual designs from such a novel paradigm could be surprisingly okay, if they manage to find some other local maximum in UX-space--but since the paradigm goes against the grain of human intuition, it wouldn't generate any globally optimal designs.)