Inspiration - The Sliding House

I find inspiration in lots of things - one of the richest sources for me being in modern Architecture.

This "Sliding House" solution is elegant, innovative and takes advantage of location, climate and overall site conditions. It's a great example of designing within a tight brief whilst still attaining innovation and creativity.

What I love about this design in particular is that you can modify your environment to suit mood, weather or function. Niiiice.

In a associated link to User Experience and design, Shane Morris, UXB (User eXperience Bloke) presented at WebDU and highlighted several references to architectural principles and construction of the user experience/user interface.

In particular that a users experience tends to break at the joins - as does architecture. I guess the point is to focus on where one process, task or activity completes and the next begins...don't let the user hang at the points where two constructs meet. Very often the continuity of experience is lost between two disparate activities due simply to the fact that it had never been considered that those two activities would occur in a sequence.

I find that having a consistency in 'choreography' - how a process, task or activity construct and deconstruct when starting or ending - assists enormously. Obviously there are many other aspects such as language, tone, layout, aesthetic (duh!), placement, etc. etc. etc. Maybe I'll post about this later...