Saturday, July 31, 2004
Cooper: Well-designed products
by Dave Cronin
A common affliction plaguing many of us interaction designers is the propensity to complain and kvetch about every piece of software on our computers, cell-phones and cars. And it's true -there is a lot of bad software out there.
To offset this sometimes irritating tendency to critique and redesign everything we see, I'd like to offer a selection of software that I consider to be truly well-designed. To avoid creating a list that is simply an expression of my personal taste (which of course it is, to some extent), I devised some criteria as necessary aspects of a well-designed software product.
Read more...
(I found two bits of software on this page that I'd never heard of... both of which I may actually have a use for... let me know if you find something you like.)
A common affliction plaguing many of us interaction designers is the propensity to complain and kvetch about every piece of software on our computers, cell-phones and cars. And it's true -there is a lot of bad software out there.
To offset this sometimes irritating tendency to critique and redesign everything we see, I'd like to offer a selection of software that I consider to be truly well-designed. To avoid creating a list that is simply an expression of my personal taste (which of course it is, to some extent), I devised some criteria as necessary aspects of a well-designed software product.
Read more...
(I found two bits of software on this page that I'd never heard of... both of which I may actually have a use for... let me know if you find something you like.)
