10 Jan
2005
10 Jan
'05
2:02 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:13:01PM +0100, martin pichlmair wrote:
and: nice working is better than nice looking :)
Of course. But nice looking never hurt no one ;) or did it?:
of course it did. aesthetics sometimes has the tendency to shadow functionality. think of the well known and beautiful philipe starck lemon squeezer: it is a pain (or at least "messy") to use. that is not what i call good design. a big deal of beauty lies in functionality, too.
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=95
(Ignore the very first paragraph - there is something wrong with their CMS causing it to take an irrelevant first paragraph from a different article)
Best,
Chris. ------------------- chris@mccormick.cx http://mccormick.cx