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Ignoring many of the more pragmatic requirements of a design in favour of superficial aesthetics is not elegance. Elegant design is solving as many requirements
by everyone 8y ago
Ignoring many of the more pragmatic requirements of a design in favour of superficial aesthetics is not elegance.
Elegant design is solving as many requirements as possible with as few elements as possible.
A claw hammer is elegant, macs are not.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoWeight + slimness (the primary drivers of unrepairable Mac designs) yield pragmatic benefits in laptops and especially in phones. There are superficial aesthetic qualities to slimness also, to be sure, but you cannot just brush away the benefits in ease of use and portability.
- everyone 8y agoWell the parent comment was referring to the apple macintosh, which is what I was also referring to. Though that does seem to be Apples general design policy 'make it look nice' to the exclusion of all else. Hey it sells though! I've literally seen a regular non technical person, when asked what kind of computer they want to buy, answer "I want a red one!"