January 30th, 2010
I have an idea for a thing (1 million people)
I tried to build a thing (50,000 people)
I built a thing that works (10,000 people)
I built a thing that people use (1,000)
I built a thing that’s easy to use (50 people)
I built a thing that people enjoy using (5 people)
I built a thing that people love (1 person)
Andy Budd
January 30th, 2010
You know how everyone who has ever done Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? always says, “It’s not the same when you’re actually here. So different from when you’re sitting at home watching.”? You know how often you’ve heard that? Well, you’ll hear the same from anyone who’s handled an iPad. The moment you experience it in your hands you know this is class. This is a different order of experience. The speed, the responsiveness, the smooth glide of it, the richness and detail of the display, the heft in your hand, the rightness of the actions and gestures that you employ, untutored and instinctively, it’s not just a scaled up iPhone or a scaled-down multitouch enhanced laptop – it is a whole new kind of device.
Stephen Fry
January 2nd, 2010
Guardian reporter Justin McGuirk has recently compiled an interesting assessment of Dieter Rams’ work and its influence on modern-day society.
January 2nd, 2010
The Design Museum in London are currently exhibiting the immortal works of Dieter Rams. The exhibition began in November and will run until March of 2010.
As head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Dieter Rams emerged as one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century by defining an elegant, legible, yet rigorous visual language for its products.
In his process, Rams adheres to these ten principles:
Find out more about the Design Museum’s Dieter Rams exhibition.