Design ... International Jobs and Scholarships week ending 12 November 2017
In a fortnight we have considered lights , painting ( camera? ) and now action. Enough talk. How do you converge on a solution or product that satisfies the business, technical (- ly feasible ) and customer? How can you achieve quality design in hardware, software and overall user experience (UX)? Is it a question of methodology? Perhaps Waterfall vs Agile vs Lean vs DevOps? In terms of hardware we used to have products that were colourful, bold, quirky and humanistic. And then to quote Adam Richardson , every tech product became white, silver, gray, black, flat, square, round and minimalist . Did you think boring ? He also posits that in the past 2 or 3 decades the German branch of industrial design has dominated . This approach is characterized by clean geometric shapes (cubes, cylinders), white and black glossy colours, and smooth unadorned surfaces . Why do you have to think about Braun, Bauhaus and Apple’s design languages ? Most tech companies follow this minimalist approach. H...