Thanks Dave for that link. Two things really stand out to me: 1. "We wouldn't dream of doing something that wouldn't hold. This is part of the culture." Working in the USA, it seems that the whole product design & deployment culture is based around planned obsolescence. I had to essentially throw away my first external cd-recorder because Philips didn't update drivers for new OS's! That's all - it was some software they decided wasn't worth it to write. I had perfectly good hardware that's dead in a landfill somewhere because of it. I see focus on pushing product out, not getting it right. It is so resource-intensive and environmentally destructive (Sony-Ericsson alone has like, 100's of cellphone models and they couldn't all possibly for completely different types of users), yet I don't quite know how to advocate for longer-lasting, more classic designs. Is it us? Is it the business? Is it the users?
2. "Practically everything in this store is designed exactly as it was envisioned". This is striking because not only the designer's vision is not diluted unlike any of the projects I've ever worked on, apparently the designers too are able to create something that's complete enough to succeed when it hits production. Do I understand this right? How can we get closer to this model? I'm not saying that UX designers should simply be allowed to play God, but how do we prevent 'vision erosion' between finalization of design and it's eventual deployment, and how to we get to mature enough designs that can make a great case for 'not messing w/ it'? -Peyush -------------------------- Check out this WSJ interview with Bang & Olufsen freelance designer, David Lewis. Definitely different than what I would have expected. http://tinyurl.com/48d9py - dave -- ________________________________________________________________ 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
