[Sigia-l] Re: Design(ers) [was: is bad design a choice?]

[Dave Heller]

On 10/18/05, Jared M. Spool <jspool at uie.com> wrote:
> I got up in front of 400 of my closest friends last week and talked about
> how iTunes+iPod is a great example of experience design. I truly believe
> that. I'll drink the Apple kool-aid as quickly as anyone. (We're actually
> considering dropping our corporate Dells for Powerbooks. Radical, no? Dave:
> how did that work for you?)

See my column on Ok-Cancel on this topic a few months back. But if you
do it corporate wide! I think its a no brainer. I would do it in a
heart beat!

> But all this Apple-love-fest is still a distraction from the conversation,
> which was about how somehow MySpace and eBay's design aren't as good and
> therefore they should be condemned by the design world. (That's the "Bad
> Choice" part of this discussion that keeps getting sideswiped.)

I think you are framing the point of the thread slightly askew, Jared.
It isn't whether eBay or MySpace is bad design, it is to say whether
there is a deterministic value in doing "ghetto design" vs. something
that takes into account aesthetics. Aesthetics != lavish. It just
means thoughtful and comlete. To me this isn't a question of better or
worse design, but any vs. intentional.


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