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Back in 2004, I was saddled with a two-hour commute to work almost every day. Fortunately, I had something with me to make the experience more bearable: my new third-generation iPod. Many of you probably remember your first iPod experience, how great it was to carry your entire music library in your pocket. This little device and the iTunes music store that launched with it transformed the music industry forever. During those long commutes, I had ample time to ponder what made this innovation so special.
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It can’t just be the technology, I thought. There were MP3 players with similar functionality on the market years before the iPod, but none of them made a comparable impact. It wasn’t what the device could do that really set the iPod apart, but how it made you feel. A design coup if there ever was one.
Companies that produce highly user-friendly and innovative products are those that know how to mix functionality with design.
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Ornamental Design
I like this term "ornamental design". It is so applicable to the design concepts of the mobile phone.
The mobile phone today is also a camera and a mobile telephone.
It is strange that these 2 products together have become a flat monolith.
Nothing more than a rectangular object made for picking up and holding to your ear on the one hand and on the other hand held by both hands to the eye to take photos.
Previously both these products took and evolutionary sometimes revolutionary trip of over 100 years to become the shape nad size they were before they were monolithed.
Yes and ornament is something nice to look at and maybe it's even cool and therefore you buy it.
But to take away the shape it was with the comfort it had in your hand and hands
is criminal.
So for me now Ornamental Design has negative connotations.
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