Tag: Aesthetics

Class division through aesthetics

In her blog essay titled “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace“, danah boyd makes some interesting observations about how socio-economic class divisions manifest themselves online through MySpace and Facebook. In this essay, boyd defines “class” as something beyond just income level; the two classes of teens she identifies are “hegemonic” (the so-called “good” […]

Crocs and aesthetics in design

I was asked at an interview once if I could name something that was very popular despite not being aesthetically pleasing. I had to think about that for a long time because it’s actually very hard to come up with examples of products that fall into this category.
First, aesthetics are very subjective — two people […]