Hi A good discussion has been going on the new Mac Air and its design elements but I want to touch on a slightly different question. What part of the Mac Air belongs to IxD and is it all about IxD or there are more important elements to the design? To elaborate, the thin form factor holds inside it an equally thin and a much more complex printed circuit board that must have been designed by a hardware designer. Similarly there is a whole lot of design that would have gone into creating the super thin shell that needs to be as sturdy as the thick cousins. The LCD panel needs to be redesigned and so does the keyboard, the battery pack and even the fans that will be cooling the processor in such a thin form factor. I have actually burnt my fingers a few times after I left my Dell laptop running all night to run some processor hungry simulations (Try touching a 60 watt light bulb after 60 seconds of switching it on; the pentium processor itself eats about 130 watts and without a well designed fan it will burn out in a few minutes even while web browsing).
But the fact is that what strikes first is the Visual form and it surely will get people to the Apple Store to check out the Mac Air, but that sure is not the end. The question I really want to put out is, whether it is justified to credit the whole making of Mac Air to a group of Interaction designers who mostly gave it the Visual form. I know a lot of you will come back saying a product is joint effort but the fact is nobody is even talking what it would have taken to design whats inside the Mac Air. Cheers Pankaj ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
