[IxDA Discuss] information navigation can be fun

[Eugene Chen]

Often navigation is looked at excise, as a task on the way to a goal, a
hallway to a room. I certainly think this way a lot myself--perhaps it is
inherent to the "design as problem solving" stance. With that attitude, our
goal is to remove the problem swiftly and efficiently and disappear. 

This brings to mind the old twist of the journey being the
destination--cliché aside.

Certaintly we don't go to restaurants with only the goal of coming away
feeling full or "not-hungry". Being hungry actually becomes an opportunity
for something interesting to happen.

Presented with the situation, "a person wants to find an inexpensive digital
camera", design thinking often approaches this as a "problem" to be
"solved", but another way to think of this would be as a point of departure
for a potential experience.


eugene

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Asselbergs [mailto:interaction-designer at lycos.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:17 PM
To: discuss at ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] information navigation can be fun

The subject says it drives to our core. Why shouldn't it be fun?