Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Designing for More Than Instagram
The tyranny of the visual continues. And it may be getting worse. I can understand why there’s a lot of attention to how things look. For most of us, vision is our dominant sense. Many places and things we encounter are also only ever seen by us – they’re pictured in magazines or online, for example, not visited in person or encountered during a shopping trip. A recent article by Stabiner in the New York Times drove home to me how crucial visual impressions are. She writes about a new course being offered at the Culinary Institute of America: “Seven years after its founding, Instagram announced last week that it has 800 million monthly users, and the camera-ready restaurant dish has become a cultural commonplace. High-quality images are as essential to a chef’s success these days as knife skills. The people who teach those knife skills know it – which …
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