Comments on: “Motion Charts are Hard” http://blog.purevisibility.com/2009/04/motion-charts-are-hard/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jhullman http://blog.purevisibility.com/2009/04/motion-charts-are-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-1548 jhullman Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:26:21 +0000 http://blog.purevisibility.com/?p=676#comment-1548 I find it so interesting that we are still drawn to them, despite their relative 'uselessness'. Hazzenhahl, the HCI researcher known for his studies of beauty in design, states that interactive products are judged not only on perceived usability (i.e. pragmatics) but also hedonic attributes (like stimulation, and identification), goodness (satisfaction) and beauty. He says that goodness depends on both perceived usability and hedonic atttributes, but that beauty depends mostly on identification, or how much the product communicates our important personal values to others. Motion Charts feel 'modern' (relatively, as other web analytics products don't give you the option) and are definitely stimulating, if not in an effective way. Their deficiency in usability (our inability to easily get whatever insights we are supposed to from them) may be balanced either by the beauty alone, or maybe our desire to present ourselves as as modern and exciting as the charts seem... I find it so interesting that we are still drawn to them, despite their relative ‘uselessness’. Hazzenhahl, the HCI researcher known for his studies of beauty in design, states that interactive products are judged not only on perceived usability (i.e. pragmatics) but also hedonic attributes (like stimulation, and identification), goodness (satisfaction) and beauty. He says that goodness depends on both perceived usability and hedonic atttributes, but that beauty depends mostly on identification, or how much the product communicates our important personal values to others.

Motion Charts feel ‘modern’ (relatively, as other web analytics products don’t give you the option) and are definitely stimulating, if not in an effective way. Their deficiency in usability (our inability to easily get whatever insights we are supposed to from them) may be balanced either by the beauty alone, or maybe our desire to present ourselves as as modern and exciting as the charts seem…

]]> By: Nick Gould http://blog.purevisibility.com/2009/04/motion-charts-are-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-1544 Nick Gould Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:01:18 +0000 http://blog.purevisibility.com/?p=676#comment-1544 Couldn't agree more. Motion Charts are useless pretty pictures... But they sure are cool! Couldn’t agree more. Motion Charts are useless pretty pictures… But they sure are cool!

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