Comments on: Fun in Interaction Design http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/11/fun-in-interaction-design/ Innovation in usability research and interaction design. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Loren http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/11/fun-in-interaction-design/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Loren Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:45:05 +0000 http://www.acleandesign.com/?p=115#comment-225 <a href="#comment-222" class="at-regular" rel="nofollow">@Andrew Maier</a> Very nice article, thanks! <a href="#comment-224" class="at-regular" rel="nofollow">@Dan Greenblatt</a> Your collection is very good - many of your examples relate to use of informal, friendly, human language. It seems that interaction designers need to be good at everything, from appropriate visual design to writing solid copy. Oh, and the ability to avoid trying to please everybody all the time, I'm finding, makes for some of the best designers :) @Andrew Maier
Very nice article, thanks!

@Dan Greenblatt
Your collection is very good – many of your examples relate to use of informal, friendly, human language. It seems that interaction designers need to be good at everything, from appropriate visual design to writing solid copy.

Oh, and the ability to avoid trying to please everybody all the time, I’m finding, makes for some of the best designers :)

]]> By: Dan Greenblatt http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/11/fun-in-interaction-design/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Dan Greenblatt Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:18:41 +0000 http://www.acleandesign.com/?p=115#comment-224 Great collection of sites here, thanks for the pointers! I especially like the Komodo Media one. Very subtle and clever. I went on a bender a while ago trying to collect as many examples I could of this. A couple other ones I came up with were Picnik (online photo editing) which has a great startup sequence and Moo (photo printing services) which sends hilariously funny status emails. Screenshots and some more examples here: http://dangreenblatt.com/blog/2008/08/24/good-looking-great-personality/ I think you really hit it on the head in that last paragraph. Interaction design is, at its core, catering to the needs of users, and the need to have fun is one that's often sorely ignored. Of course, everyone's got a different definition of fun, and what's fun to someone may be offensive to others (i.e. a cute fatal error message in a mission critical application with a deadline bearing down on you) but, hey, you can't please all the people all the time ;) Great collection of sites here, thanks for the pointers! I especially like the Komodo Media one. Very subtle and clever.

I went on a bender a while ago trying to collect as many examples I could of this. A couple other ones I came up with were Picnik (online photo editing) which has a great startup sequence and Moo (photo printing services) which sends hilariously funny status emails.

Screenshots and some more examples here:
http://dangreenblatt.com/blog/2008/08/24/good-looking-great-personality/

I think you really hit it on the head in that last paragraph. Interaction design is, at its core, catering to the needs of users, and the need to have fun is one that’s often sorely ignored. Of course, everyone’s got a different definition of fun, and what’s fun to someone may be offensive to others (i.e. a cute fatal error message in a mission critical application with a deadline bearing down on you) but, hey, you can’t please all the people all the time ;)

]]> By: Andrew Maier http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/11/fun-in-interaction-design/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Andrew Maier Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:07:19 +0000 http://www.acleandesign.com/?p=115#comment-222 So very true. I think that the *human* part of human computer interaction is the most fun. We actually just did related article on this very topic over at www.uxbooth.com: http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/usable-human-connections-through-the-web/ Great list! -Andrew So very true. I think that the *human* part of human computer interaction is the most fun. We actually just did related article on this very topic over at http://www.uxbooth.com: http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/usable-human-connections-through-the-web/

Great list!
-Andrew

]]> By: brandon applefield http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/11/fun-in-interaction-design/comment-page-1/#comment-131 brandon applefield Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:20:17 +0000 http://www.acleandesign.com/?p=115#comment-131 Fun and a little flashiness in design is what makes sites stand out among the rest, i love the flickr example. Nice post Fun and a little flashiness in design is what makes sites stand out among the rest, i love the flickr example.

Nice post

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