Reading some stuff across the recent "Facets of the Visual Aesthetics" by Moshagen and Thielsch, 2010, I stumbled upon «What is beautiful is usable», a quote by Noam Tractinsky.
Uhm, it reminds me of Tony Wilson quoting in a "24 hours Party People" the rather famous «Nothing useless can ever truly be beautiful» by William Morris. William Morris, Aesthetic Movement, Arts and Crafts. It seems we are back to the old days of the psychology studies at the university, with Titchner's "sensations and affections", facing the old attempt to isolate and recreate the basics of the human experience through a verbally reported percept