Tuesday, July 29, 2008

If a coporation were charged with designing a stop sign

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From this video we learn two things:

  1. (Most) People are terrible designers
  2. (Most) Designers have no balls. Rather, they collectively pander to client requests instead of imposing their professional will on customers much like a doctor or mechanic would. This is a disservice to both the client and the designer — everybody loses.

[via Nick Roussos]

2 Comments

  • Nicholas says...

    I couldn’t help feeling that the “committee” did a great job. The problem was that corporates often aren’t tasked with making a great product, rather they’re tasked with pleasing and meeting the expectations of those involved in the process. And that turns out a horrible product. Cough, cough (Windows ME and Vista both come to mind.)

  • steveballmer says...

    Reminds me of some of our wonderful “User Interface Operability Focus Groups”. I realize that this video makes fun of it but the truth is that you can never have too much input! I mean, look at what we did with Vista! It rocks!

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