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Maybe I'm a bit too much of a STEM-headed engineer but I think you are making a false comparison. UX is fleeting. Even the best UX will grow stale over time as
by valarauca1 10y ago
Maybe I'm a bit too much of a STEM-headed engineer but I think you are making a false comparison.
UX is fleeting. Even the best UX will grow stale over time as styles change, and it's style propagates (as it will if it is truly revolutionary) it will become mundane.
Technology breakthroughs are hacks in the laws of physics. Humanity hasn't fundamentally redesigned the Steam Engine since James Watt. It just can't become more efficient. Nobody cares steam is mundane, or well understood. We still use it in nearly ever power plant.
So no I don't stand why people feel the need to own something as fleeting as a singular moment in the pseudo-cultural-artistic space Product/UX design fits in knowing that it'll pass and forever be looked on as an out of style relic of a by-gone age. To do so honestly and earnestly makes you sound like a diva.
- peyton 10y agoTrust me, a lot more work went into the iPhone's design than you'd think. One analogy is brute force searching for an approximate solution to an optimization problem. It's problematic when others take your solution if you did all the brute forcing. Design is only fleeting inasmuch as an approximation could be fleeting. Others build off an approximation to find better solutions. But without the earlier solution, we'd find ourselves in a much different part of the sample space.