Saturday 30 January 2010

Design v Styling

Continuing the iPad theme: This feature in The Guardian featured this important paragraph, worth repeating here.

What none has managed is to imagine how it would actually work – which is of course the really important thing about any piece of technology, and one that Steve Jobs emphasises again and again. Design, he points out to journalists who don't seem to get the message, isn't about how something looks; it's not something you put onto the outside of an already-built product. It's how you build the product, from the inside out.

Guardian - http://tinyurl.com/ycv25xu


As a statement about the frames of reference design operate within, its concise and revealing. Far more revealing that a debate about what a crime the use of Papyrus was in the film Avatar....

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