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Healthy Competition
The Museum of Modern Art should offer awards for excellence of user
interface. Donald Norman, author of The Design of Everyday
Things, says he dreads the day these awards are handed
out,[12] but I think it would be a step in the right
direction. It would validate interface aesthetics to designers, give
them an added incentive to consult with an artist before creating an
application for a visible interface. Ben Shneidermann encourages his
students to design and try out competitions among user
interfaces.[13] If authors and manufacturers know
that the aesthetic value of their product will be evaluated by a panel
of experts and reported to potential users, they will be forced to
make improvements. We will also see that improvement when today's
computer-oriented publications that write reviews and comparisons of
hardware and software add an `artistry' or `aesthetic integration'
factor to their testing and evaluation articles.
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