{"id":105,"date":"2008-08-12T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/aesthetics-matter\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:24:44","slug":"aesthetics-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/aesthetics-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetics Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>.. aesthetics (are) important in UI. <strong>If you begin to look at something and want to avert your eyes, the site has failed.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whydoeseverythingsuck.com\/2008\/08\/ui-guru-jakob-nielsens-site-is.html\">Hank Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend the book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEmotional-Design-Love-Everyday-Things%2Fdp%2F0465051367%2F&#038;tag=vincgabl-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Emotional Design<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=vincgabl-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>, which makes this point in much more detail.  A person&#8217;s emotional state has a quantifiable impact on how successful they will be at a task. Aesthetics  are still the most direct way to manipulate emotion.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.. aesthetics (are) important in UI. If you begin to look at something and want to avert your eyes, the site has failed. Hank Williams I highly recommend the book Emotional Design, which makes this point in much more detail. A person&#8217;s emotional state has a quantifiable impact on how successful they will be at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,24,8],"tags":[130,131,40],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-design","category-quotes","category-usability","tag-emotion","tag-graphic-design","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}