- Design & Arts
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An American industrial engineer, renowned for designing and improving the usability of consumer products such as Hoover vacuum cleaner or the tabletop telephone.
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When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. On the other hand, if people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient — or just happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.
- Design Thinking
- Industrial Design
- Usability
- UX Design
We designers create tools. Tools that you can live in, sit on, eat with, tools that enable communication and support learning, creating, and mending. Our tools can be powerful, they can be beautiful, and on many occasions they’re not motivated by understood or articulated needs.
Jony Ive
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
- Industrial Design
- Purpose of Design
When we are at these early stages in design . . . often we’ll talk about the story for the product—we’re talking about perception. We’re talking about how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense.
Jony Ive
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
- Famous Products
- Industrial Design
- Perception
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Dieter Rams
A German industrial designer closely associated with functionalist school of industrial design.
- Design Principles
- Industrial Design