Design Thoughts

The world is full of formulas. And no i am not talking only about science or maths here. If we observe closely around us, as humans we seek formulas of success. That which has been once or more than once successful tends to be accepted of considered positively in the society. No i am not generalizing this neither am i saying formulating the world is a wrong thing. Sometimes formalization helps, like formalizing the way I operate a machine helps. Because I dont have to learn how to operate the machine in a new way everytime. Most of the times we see people finding a successful way to operate or perform an action that leads to their goals. While other times when they dont want to put an effort to learn it, they then to pick up ways methods, processes from others who have done the same successfully. So let me give you examples of what i am saying. For example if you see a person go to a doctor for a particular type of disease and then get cured by it. Then you firstly register that the d...

The act of doing something, or for that instance performing the act of doing things, has been always looked upon from the goal oriented manner. Interaction design as a profession deals with the domain of action and the intents or goals of the same. The intent of ones action towards any interaction is generally portrayed in the goal of that activity. As interaction designers we generally follow this on our daily basis with users intent to reach a goal. If we look more closely intent of an action need not always be towards completion of a goal using that action. At times the action has some varied intents beyond the reaching of the goal. Curiosity can be considered as one such intent in which again the goal is to find out what the action leads to. Such a goal is of course not finite since it completely depends on the levels of curiosity itself. Also calling curiosity as an intent can also be logically incorrect considering that most of the times actions due to curiosity is a natural...