Comments on: Design Theory 101: Emotion and Experience http://www.technicalpoet.com/2007/07/emotion101/ Writer, Geek, Web Evangelist Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:19:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris Pallé http://www.technicalpoet.com/2007/07/emotion101/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Chris Pallé Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:56:43 +0000 http://technicalpoet.com/2007/07/02/emotion101/#comment-7 Hey there, Amber- I appreciate your considerate attention to these aspects of the creative experience. You have reminded me that as designers, craftspeople, artists, whathaveyou, we stride to elicit an emotion in our audience. The moment of transference is critical. It is there we give chance to a reaction, a shared connection, an experience. From there, what is opened and maintained is the relationship. Even it is with a vacuum cleaner. :-) I see your struggle to find "love" in this industrious world of Web design. Love is somehow mysteriously absent amongst the goals and directives of business and industry. I have some thoughts on that, though. For the most part, Love is missing from this world. Which is odd, because if that which we seek is a connection with an audience, than what other platform could we have? Misery? Or worse, lust? I suppose, but what good would come of that? The Internet by the very nature of its makeup is inherently a cold, dead place. It is the people on the other side of each of these lifeless machines that bring warmth and personality to the equations of bits and bytes. Heck, even when businesses primarily communicated through paper, there was at least a continuous organic connection. So, we're all separated between silicone, steel and plastic; fabrications of human engineering. And with that separation, it's _extremely_ easy to be someone you're not. It's easy to lose inhibitions, give into temptations and go blind. So, really. Can Love live there? Here on this convoluted Web of masked personalities? Absolutely, but I would submit that it takes a spiritual force. A spirit of pure Love to break through. Anything else will lead to failure. That's my belief anyway. You're a good writer. I look forward to more. Don't forget, you owe me a paper. ;-) Hey there, Amber–
I appreciate your considerate attention to these aspects of the creative experience. You have reminded me that as designers, craftspeople, artists, whathaveyou, we stride to elicit an emotion in our audience. The moment of transference is critical. It is there we give chance to a reaction, a shared connection, an experience. From there, what is opened and maintained is the relationship. Even it is with a vacuum cleaner. :-)

I see your struggle to find “love” in this industrious world of Web design. Love is somehow mysteriously absent amongst the goals and directives of business and industry. I have some thoughts on that, though.

For the most part, Love is missing from this world. Which is odd, because if that which we seek is a connection with an audience, than what other platform could we have? Misery? Or worse, lust? I suppose, but what good would come of that?

The Internet by the very nature of its makeup is inherently a cold, dead place. It is the people on the other side of each of these lifeless machines that bring warmth and personality to the equations of bits and bytes. Heck, even when businesses primarily communicated through paper, there was at least a continuous organic connection.

So, we’re all separated between silicone, steel and plastic; fabrications of human engineering. And with that separation, it’s _extremely_ easy to be someone you’re not. It’s easy to lose inhibitions, give into temptations and go blind.

So, really. Can Love live there? Here on this convoluted Web of masked personalities? Absolutely, but I would submit that it takes a spiritual force. A spirit of pure Love to break through. Anything else will lead to failure. That’s my belief anyway.

You’re a good writer. I look forward to more. Don’t forget, you owe me a paper. ;-)

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