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September 27, 2007
SHE
Maeda lays out a clear, if not somewhat simplistic treatise on the design of increasingly small but sophisticated technology, the core of which is Shrink / Hide / Embody. by and large i agree with his ideas and feel he does a good job of explaining how this should work. i would have liked to hear examples of how this approach could be applied to yet-to-be invented devices instead of just hearing about existing examples. how can this be improved? what are some examples of devices that do NOT embrace this approach? how will this approach evolve as devices get so small that a screen of any size becomes cumbersome? how do designers deal with putting ever more functionality into devices that are ever smaller? at a certain point it just becomes chaos, much like the bulky remote controls of the 90's....so how do we as designers logically layout a sophisticated amount of control to consumers who demand an ever decreasing amount of clutter? this problem is only going to get harder going forward, and while he does a good job of summing up the existing approach, i dont feel like we get a real clear picture of what is supposed to happen in the near future.
-mike
Posted by Mike at September 27, 2007 12:18 PM