Author: Spencer Date: To: Tails user experience & user interface design CC: Marc Watson Subject: Re: [Tails-ux] patch to make tails installer UI more foolproof
Hi,
TL;DR
Form is function.
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>> Marc Watson:
>> this is a one-time post
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Thanks for not posting this again (:
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>> the old fight between designers and engineers
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Engineers are designers, they make designations.
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>> ppl who put "beauty" over functionality and
>> ppl who hold it vice versa.
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There seems to be some confusion here; for clarification:
Aesthetics: The way something looks/appears to look.
Function: The way something works/appears to work.
Can you provide an example where function exists without aesthetic
qualities and where aesthetics qualities exist without a function; these
two concepts are inherently tied, it seems.
"Beauty" is often seen as proportional balance, such as in the golden
mean, and can aid in communicating the function/intended function of
product or service.
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>> usability
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To focus on usability is to focus on beauty.
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> sajolida:
> Tails pretends to be
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In english, this is very alarming to read.
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>> Tails tries do dumb down users (just see the freakin
>> new wizards that annoy all power users).
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Simplification can do this but I feel like this is a temporary outcome
of the development process; things will get better but only with help
from people like you (:
