I find this to be a difficult thing to find artifacts that we ‘love’, I’m not sure whether its love, affection, passion or being obsessed about something. I think I find myself surrounded by things that I enjoy, things that I like to have, or perhaps I find myself surrounded by artifacts that have cool affordances, and this one is not the exception. Our Fridge has an affordance that I find myself geeking every time I play with it, but is it really playing?
This LG fridge has a door that offers almost an entire glass door, so it suggests that is there for a reason, it serves a function, it mapped the user to lead to wanting to do an action, perhaps touch it? which I find it very interacting and fascinating at the same time; I get to see what’s inside just with a tap? Not to mentioned that growing up I had a fridge that I had to pull with both hands and kick it on the side so that it would open the door, this has taken it to a new level. The affordance of this fridge is that it offers a simplistic and interacting way of peeking what’s inside the fridge. Not only does it provide a clue about what to do, in this case just touch/tap the glass door, but it offers a physical characteristic that influences its function.
This, I love very much, more like border like affection.
An object that I hate is my dishwand holder. This ceramic looking artifact contains a visual feedback of three different openings where one supposedly places the dishwand after use.
Because this is a frequently repeated stimulus, or habitation, one doesn’t think about the physical contrains this artifact lacks of. As you can visualize from the photo (sorry not the best photo) the dishwand leans to the side of the holder, or outside of the holder, what that means is when one is done washing dishes you immediately respond to setting it in there while one is doing other things, or perhaps it is left there once dishes are done, the problem with this is the dripping and mess that it leaves after a few minutes. Which, I appreciate how modern, clean and elegant it looks, but it lacks from the very fundamental functionality that this is supposed to achieve, which is ensure whether the dishwand is upright so it drips into the holder, or only make one opening so the dishwand drips inside the sync and not onto the counter with the other two openings to the side.