Current work involves examining the implications and possibilities of adopting a pragmatist aesthetics perspective in HCI. Specifically, emphasis is on pursuing a better understanding of how the practice of designing technological artefacts may be an aesthetic experience resulting in the construction of objects that form the focus for reflection and meaning-making. In this position paper, we discuss the initial phases of a developing case study addressing the challenge for sighted designers of constructing such a technological artefact for blind people. The case study, adopting qualities of a pragmatist aesthetics approach, highlights the implications for design of the inseparability of acts of creating and appropriating objects and emphasises the role of empathy in designing and the search for the aesthetic in design   more »