Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (/ˈmiːhaɪ ˌtʃiːksɛntməˈhaɪ.iː/ MEE-hy CHEEK-sent-mə-HY-ee; Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Hungarian: [ˈtʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj] ( ); born (1934-09-29) 29 September 1934 (age 79), in Fiume, Italy – now Rijeka, Croatia, Europe) is a Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22.
Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. [citation needed] Work[edit] Personal background[edit] Csikszentmihalyi received his B.A. in 1960 and his PhD in 1965, both from the University of Chicago.[4] Csikszentmihalyi is the father of Art Center College of Design Professor Christopher Csikszentmihalyi and University of California - Berkeley[5] professor of philosophical and religious traditions of China and East Asia, Mark Csikszentmihalyi. Flow[edit] Motivation[edit] Publications[edit] See also[edit] Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow with Soul. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (9780060920432): Miha. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Brain Channels Thinker of the Year - 2000. The Thinker of the Year Award has been awarded to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago who has devoted his life's work to the study of what makes people truly happy, satisfied and fulfilled.
Mr. Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced chick-sent-me-high-ee) is chiefly renowned as the architect of the notion of flow in creativity; people enter a flow state when they are fully absorbed in activity during which they lose their sense of time and have feelings of great satisfaction. Mr. Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Martin E.P. Csikszentmihalyi is also a leading researcher on creativity. Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihaly's Books Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience Finding Flow : The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life Other Related Links Hero of the Day - Daily Objectivist.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow. Designing For Flow. In web design, when we think about flow we usually think about “task flows” or “flow charts” but there’s another type of flow that we should keep in mind.
It’s that feeling of complete absorption when you’re engaged in something you love to do without being disrupted by anxiety or boredom caused by tasks that are confusing, repetitive or overly taxing. Flow, as a mental state, was first proposed by psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and is characterized by a distorted sense of time, a lack of self-consciousness, and complete engagement in the task at hand. Software engineers might feel it when they’re writing code, gamers might feel it when playing Guitar Hero III, Christopher Cross felt it when he went sailing.
For designers, it’s exactly the feeling we hope to promote in the people who use our sites. How do we create sites that inspire that feeling? The way to make the complex feel painless is to design with flow in mind. 1. 2. 3. 4. Go with the flow#section5. Bonne vie.