Navigating Complex Waters: Product Design’s Perfect Storm (Part 1 of 2)
How product design is changing ...
"It wouldn’t feel like the proper end to 2005 without some sort of dramatic, sensational prediction. So I’ve taken it upon myself to declare the following:
Product design, as we know it, is finished.
An audience of product fetishists might find this assertion unthinkable, given all the pop-business literature declaring “design” as the new black. Yet despite the most glowing laudations about the growing importance of design by business gurus (and even some of our favorite bloggers), the fact remains that professional designers are responsible for less than 2% of our constructed environment.* That means that most of the products you surround yourself with are not designed: the user experience is not crafted purposefully, the aesthetics are often haphazard, and the functionality is less well thought out. (This is not to say that designers always execute well on these fronts—think: Windows—but with “designed” products, there is a greater likelihood that you’ll experience some sort of organizing logic.)" continued ... (Via frog Design Mind)
"It wouldn’t feel like the proper end to 2005 without some sort of dramatic, sensational prediction. So I’ve taken it upon myself to declare the following:
Product design, as we know it, is finished.
An audience of product fetishists might find this assertion unthinkable, given all the pop-business literature declaring “design” as the new black. Yet despite the most glowing laudations about the growing importance of design by business gurus (and even some of our favorite bloggers), the fact remains that professional designers are responsible for less than 2% of our constructed environment.* That means that most of the products you surround yourself with are not designed: the user experience is not crafted purposefully, the aesthetics are often haphazard, and the functionality is less well thought out. (This is not to say that designers always execute well on these fronts—think: Windows—but with “designed” products, there is a greater likelihood that you’ll experience some sort of organizing logic.)" continued ... (Via frog Design Mind)
Product Similarity.
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