Design
What Is Design
- Design is when context is manipulated (optimized) to compliment function.
- Design is when the outside appearance is a servant of the internal requirements.
- Design is the details sweated over so thoroughly that they look almost childishly simple.
Intro
- Design is something that happens when the outside appearance is a servant of the internal requirements.
- Beauty can often result.
Example
- Take the sleep light on a Mac:
- Jonathan Ive (Apple's head designer) was once challenged that this was trivial eye candy.
- His answer?
- That a soft, pulsing light perfectly represents the sleep state of the computer.
- That it also looks good is an intentional bonus.
- Lately, this design has been refined —
- the light glows steadily when the display sleeps,
- indicating that the machine is still on.
- It also glows steadily while the contents of RAM are written to disk on entering hibernation.
- That is design:
- Details sweated over so thoroughly that they look almost childishly simple.
- design is when context is manipulated to compliment function
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