{"id":872,"date":"2013-03-26T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=872"},"modified":"2013-03-26T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T12:39:07","slug":"the-poem-as-visceral-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"The Poem as Visceral App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Foster of Mysterious Trousers\u2014a software outfit (ha) that makes, among other things, <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=sWQvCYydpmQ&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=https%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fcalvetica-calendar%252Fid385862462%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30\">Calvetica<\/a>\u2014a pretty good calendar app for your iPhone\u2014has written <a href=\"http:\/\/mysterioustrousers.com\/news\/2013\/3\/25\/visceral-apps-and-you\">this manifesto<\/a> theorizing on how to design apps move your body to respond pleasurably (a poetic in and of itself) by engineering visceral feedback. This is pretty good figurative guidance for any artist:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So here\u2019s my theory: I believe that introducing visceral elements into an app will take it past the point of just being awesome. It will make your app speak to the subconscious, built-in affinity that humans have for the physical properties I mentioned before. I believe that even if you designed the most perfect and useful app possible, that the act of adding in these visceral elements will make people love your app on an even deeper level.<\/p>\n<p>Let me put it another way:<\/p>\n<p>I believe when properly done, a visceral app actually causes your body to release endorphins. I\u2019ve heard people describe certain apps as being \u201calive\u201d and I think this is precisely what they meant. Potential and kinetic. Build-up and release.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Foster of Mysterious Trousers\u2014a software outfit (ha) that makes, among other things, Calvetica\u2014a pretty good calendar app for your iPhone\u2014has written this manifesto theorizing on how to design apps move your body to respond pleasurably (a poetic in and of itself) by engineering visceral feedback. This is pretty good figurative guidance for any artist: So here\u2019s my theory: I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}