Beyond Beige: Interpretive Design for the Post-Industrial Age

Do the blocks rock

“…These are expressive and exploratory tangibles [14,15]. Expressive TUIs allows the user to have focus on an external representation of their activity, it allows expression through the TUI and reflection on actions.…”

“…Elliot Noyes was design consultant to IBM and developed a universalist look to their range of products which aimed to speak of the companies business strategy through a minimalist and familial coherence [15]. However this rationalist and minimal approach created a marketplace saturated with electronic products that lacked any reference to their culture of use, the result being microwaves looking like televisions [15]. A criticism of this approach is offered by the proponents of the Design Semantics movement within product design [14,15].…”

“…However this rationalist and minimal approach created a marketplace saturated with electronic products that lacked any reference to their culture of use, the result being microwaves looking like televisions [15]. A criticism of this approach is offered by the proponents of the Design Semantics movement within product design [14,15]. They argue that product form should make reference to culture, place and time.…”