Industrial designers can create amazing prototypes, but when a product is shipped it becomes subject to some very cruel market forces. The Nokia N-gage had huge

Industrial designers can create amazing prototypes, but when a product is shipped it becomes subject to some very cruel market forces. The Nokia N-gage had huge potential, but was quickly lambasted as the ''taco phone'' due to layout decisions that broke common mobile phone paradigms. > had a laughably ugly form, would it be used? The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is the perfect example. Love it or hate it, the aesthetics of that aircraft are far from ''normal''.