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> But design is everything. It is both form and function. Steve Jobs would agree with you: "People think it's this veneer – that the designers are handed this
by TimTheTinker 7y ago
> But design is everything. It is both form and function.
Steve Jobs would agree with you: "People think it's this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
So I think OP's term "tyranny of design" could be better phrased "tyranny of form" (as opposed to function).
- koboll 7y agoA big part of the problem is that many designers seem to really want to be artists, not designers, and they tend to want to pull design in an artistic (i.e. form-centric) direction. A casual glance at Dribbble makes this pretty clear.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoGood artists are also not obsessed with form though. Great artists usually have very specific functional goals for their work. It’s fetishists who are obsessed with objects and their shape. I agree, many bad designers would rather be bad artists. But it’s harder to make money as a bad artist than a bad designer.