Timeline for Look and 'feel' of a web page/site/app
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| May 6, 2011 at 8:30 | comment | added | Neil | "feel" refers to how it handles. Think of a web site like a car. You want to make sure that it both looks good but also that it has a good feel to how you're accustomed to driving. Apart from this, "look and feel" is an expression which means what you want it to mean, so why reinvent the wheel? | |
| May 6, 2011 at 8:26 | comment | added | leon | @Joachim - This is what I'm questioning- isn't there a word we can use for 'Not necessarily referring to tactition, more to an emotional feeling...' when describing the perception of a webpage? To settle on just 'feel' as I said, seems a little lazy wrt software/GUIs. | |
| May 6, 2011 at 7:45 | comment | added | Joachim Sauer | @leonxki: "feel" doesn't necessarily refer to tactition. In this case it refers more to an emotional feeling. | |
| May 6, 2011 at 7:10 | comment | added | leon | I understand the Wikipedia excerpt. The thing is, say you meet someone at some social arrangement. The first sense we use is sight- we look at them (although some tend to use other means). By 'observing' them we create the notion of their character- "gosh he's interesting/annoying in the way he does xyz". Even by feeling their touch we can also add to this 'character' thing we are building- "mmm touchy". How they present themselves to just our sense of sight builds up a character profile. Back to something you see on-screen, you are in fact not feeling anything but perhaps characterising it? | |
| May 6, 2011 at 6:51 | history | answered | zzzbbx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |