Thursday, October 11, 2007

Design Obsessed!

After reading the first chapter of the Design book, i have become somewhat obsessed with how things are designed, keeping vigil on the flaws that (inadvertently) make our lives more difficult than they need to be.

A few things that have compromised World Order:

  • My light switch is located behind the door, which is just silly
  • Tab key should be on both sides of the keyboard
  • Information architecture in general (website design and word and image placement...many, many bad examples out there!)
  • A browser that will go unnamed...the "back" and "forward" button are practically invisible with no words to indicate they do what they do! And the buttons are so "design-oriented" that they lose all practical qualities
  • The SFSU parking lot! A labyrinth and a nightmare!
  • Why do LCD projectors have a leg slightly off-center? Can anyone answer this? There has to be a logical reason!

I am sure i will come up with more, but it is a good (albeit irking) excercise to keep these senses honed to maintain an evolution in the world of design. Look forward to the next chapters!

2 comments:

Michelle said...

Your light switch comment made me laugh. We have a row of four light switches in a weird place in our living room (which has no built in fixtures, hence it doesn't seem there should be any need for any switches at all), and since we moved in two months ago, we've only been able to figure out what two of the switches are for (porch light and a random outlet.)

-Michelle

Shamwari said...

Yes, a tab key on the right. You should write Apple immediately.

I have a hot tip for you about parking… I will solve all of your maze-issues! Talk to me.