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This article is fraught with frustratingly-incorrect use of the word "design". The author continually mistakes "design" for visual appearance. "Apple never des
by ianstormtaylor 15y ago
This article is fraught with frustratingly-incorrect use of the word "design". The author continually mistakes "design" for visual appearance.
"Apple never designed the iPad. They undesigned the tablet. They focused on creating the simplest form possible. Every single decision is based on usability, readability, comfort, and focusing your eyes on the content itself."
That's exactly what design is: finding the problems that need to be solved and devising a solution that solves them. One that respects usability, readability, comfort, etc.
"The shape of a tablet has nothing to do with design. It is simple logic."
Wrong again.
"Again, this has nothing to do with design. The width of the margin is an engineering problem with only one solution."
And again. It is a design decision.
"Again, none of this is a design problem. It is all about usability."
Because usability has nothing to do with design... nope.
"What has happened here is that Samsung has been forced to add design elements that don't need to be there."
Here you mean "visual elements" not "design elements".
"Again, this has nothing to do with design. This is an engineering constraint." (talking about the batteries)
Still wrong, it has something to do with design. This however is the only one that gets close to its claim.
The author makes a lot of interesting points, but he clearly doesn't know what "design" means.
- Helianthus 15y agoI'm furious over the use of the 'word' "undesign." THEY'RE DESTROYING MY LANGUAGE.
- Gring 15y agoActually, they're undesigning your language.
- Helianthus 15y agoSTOP IT YOU'RE HURTING AMERICA
- stan_rogers 15y ago"un" is a productive negation prefix. That means that it can freely be used just about anywhere it makes lexical sense to use it; there is no list of approved verbs with which it may be used. Undesign is a perfectly valid word (and preferable to alternatives like dedesign in terms of aestheitics). Dictionaries cannot be expected to contain every variant of a word created by valid and systematic use of affixes.
- sbuk 15y agoI was going to post more or less the same thing. I'd add that if you read any book on software engineering you will see the word "design" used repeatedly, more often than not referring to the process of solving a problem. This is also true of other engineering textbooks. Design is about solving problems therefore design is engineering.