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  2. Applied aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Design aesthetics is interested in the appearance of products; the explanation and meaning of this appearance is studied mainly in terms of social and cultural factors. The distinctive focus of the section is research and education in the field of sensory modalities in relation to product design.

  3. Aesthetic–usability effect - Wikipedia

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    The design aesthetics is employed in two ways: it may refer to the objective features of a stimulus or to the subjective reaction to the specific product features. [10] A study between two functionally identical mobile phones with highly appealing visual appearance not appealing visual appearance to determine the influence of appearance on ...

  4. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    To emphasize what is aesthetic about an experience is not to highlight what is apolitical or impractical or otherwise marginal about that experience; instead, it is to emphasize in what ways that experience, as aesthetic, is a 'manifestation, a record, and celebration of the life of a civilization, a means for promoting its development' and ...

  5. MDA framework - Wikipedia

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    Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics from the perspectives of designer (blue) and player (green) In game design the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) framework is a tool used to analyze games. It formalizes the properties of games by breaking them down into three components: Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics. These three words have been used ...

  6. Philosophy of design - Wikipedia

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    The field, which is mostly a sub-discipline of aesthetics, is defined by an interest in a set of problems, or an interest in central or foundational concerns in design. In addition to these central problems for design as a whole, many philosophers of design consider these problems as they apply to particular disciplines (e.g. philosophy of art).

  7. Design research - Wikipedia

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    Design research was originally constituted as primarily concerned with ways of supporting and improving the process of design, developing from work in design methods.The concept has been expanded to include research embedded within the process of design and research-based design practice, research into the cognitive and communal processes of designing, and extending into wider aspects of socio ...

  8. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    The Peacock Room, designed in the Anglo-Japanese style by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Edward Godwin, one of the most famous and comprehensive examples of Aesthetic interior design Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement ) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature , music , fonts and ...

  9. Applied arts - Wikipedia

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    The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing. [1] The term is used in distinction to the fine arts, which are those that produce objects with no practical use, whose only purpose is to be beautiful or stimulate the intellect in some way.