Ok, yes I have painted this and let me get this straight- I am not a painter. I am an artist, a designer and painting is my hobby. So if you are looking for painting lessons I am the last compartment you should enter. So I am a visual designer, a 21st-century term for a graphic designer. I can think of fancier names like calling myself a UI / UX expert but then let us just stick to the title - Designer or trying-to-be-a-designer. I deal with creating (trying to create) interesting interactions. I actually love interacting with colours, imaginary spaces and shapes more than human interactions in real life. So coming back to this painting, well it all started in the same way most things started for me including this blog piece. I was frustrated & angry when I came back from work and I had to vent it out. I didn't know what else to do. I could order food online & eat but to my utter delight it was month-end for me. YES! I was broke. I took out the little bit of acrylic colours I had and started mixing it up on some white mount board i managed to find in my house. 10 mins into the process when I was feeling much happier and enjoying my usual 'Sunday Suspense - Feluda' audio story. U know what I saw? What did I fall in love with? The colours started interacting with each other. They spoke a language together. They formed a flow. I have cut small chips and have pasted it to create this composition. It all started with a block of solid red slowly and organically degenerating into other colours. This for me is a pillar of interaction design. When different voices come together to state a purpose it creates a flow. It places a system in process. This can either lead to a good or a bad outcome. But in the world of interaction design the only thing you should be thinking of is Who is interacting? Why is that person interacting? What is the end goal of that person? Who is he or she? The last question is what gets me worried. It all comes down to picking the right audience to interact with. It is funny that I am talking of designing or creating or looking at interactions in a different way during a time of pandemic despair and uncertainty but what if you would have looked at the painting from the other way round. What if the bottom left corner becomes the top right corner. Would you still have seen the flow in place? Designing interactions is also about common sense in place, it is about multiple entities and actions coming together to form an opinion (mostly a positive opinion) in the mind of the customer. So creating a system is important in interaction design. All this or is it just a painting? A fragment of my imagination? If you are questioning the authenticity of my findings and answering these questions to yourself then hey you, we are interacting.
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