Does it work?
Chris Chambers (Innovationz Consultant Engineer)
- Design smiles
- Showing that you care is very important The other day I was in Henderson which is part of West Auckland and found design smiling at me so I smiled back (and took some photos). Henderson is not a super wealthy town but they clearly value good design and are willing to invest in quality. As a visitor you ...
- Pleased to be seated in Melbourne
- I found myself in Melbourne last week and very nice it was too. It's fun to observe the daily theatre that is a major city going to work. The hustle and bustle of commuters is made even more entertaining with the trams that Melbourne has. The architecture is interesting too. There was some great sculpture ...
- Beware cliched design rules
- The teaching of 'design' often tries many tacks to impart knowledge to the student so that they can then produce a design based on sound principles. The rules - if you like. More recently I have been the teacher and have been surprised by the intensity of the students seeking to find and file the rules. ...
- Millions of units doesn't make it a good design
- It would be an easy defence of a product to say that millions of units have been sold but that simply is not true in many cases. Is it supplier domination of a market? Is it customer apathy? Is it the absence of criticism from those that should be making comment? I can't really speculate on this. Anyway ...
- Why didn't I think of that!
- There are times when you simply can not critique a design. It is so fresh and so new and so compelling that really to start any formal assessment is simply not appropriate. I was catching up on some TEDs and as usual all were interesting but David Merrill's is just - so cool! I apologise for offering ...
- Don't forget to make it last
- Here is an example of how you should not forget that a product is measured by many things. Making a product look good is very important but the design process is an opportunity to improve things not to push one aspect above all others. Designs that put one consideration above all others will have a short ...
