| island911 |
07-21-2016 07:38 AM |
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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
(Post 9207622)
Why oh why would people take a thin, elegant, minimalist object and clad it in a huge, obnoxious, clunky-looking shell?
...the iPhone's is the industrial design aspect - which is excellent. They put a lot of thought into the appearance and "sex appeal" of their products even admittedly at the expense of some ergonomic considerations. ...
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industrial design aspect - which is excellent
at the expense of some ergonomic considerations.
I don't think that you know what ID is. Then again, neither do so many (most) Industrial Designers. :)
I've worked with many, and yet only a few are able to incorporate styling and functional use considerations. Most ID guys and girls, draw a pretty picture, or shape a block of foam, and call it done. IOW, they are just stylists.
Clearly those at Apple are better than that in so many other products; yet their phone isn't one of them. OTOH, the ridiculous minimalism prompts people to think the problem is with themselves, and certainly not the 'art' of the phone. --like posers at a hoity-toity art show, with hand on chin, staring at a blank white canvas with a single central black rectangle -- ponder ponder... pose... ponder ponder...
It's a phone, people! Gild it all you want; but that doesn't make the design better.
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