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October 04, 2007
Maeda and Me
Although his writing style is pretty terrible, I agreed with just about everything Maeda wrote. In fact, most of it seemed like common sense or the kinds of conclusions one would come to were one to think about the design of technology in any superficial sense. I guess I wanted more from Maeda. Yes, I know that VCRs in the 80s were WAY too hard to program and that they hid a lot of buttons behind little doors. I KNOW that the remote control for my DVD player is a horrendous beast with about 23 buttons I will never use and if I looked at it hard enough, I would realize that the curves on my Lenovo actually do make it looks smaller and thinner than it is. In fact, I've admired those curves lovingly from time to time.
I want Maeda to talk about how design is transitioning which I believe involves user customization. The idea of customizing tennis shoes or web applications is now a reality vs. something like the iPhone whose simplicity supposes to have reached its teleological conclusion and doesn't let the user rework its captivating design. In other words, tell me something I don't know Maeda. Go past the superficialness of design and get more philisophical in analysis.
Posted by Chris at October 4, 2007 05:22 PM