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- From: gregt@colsoft.adsp.sub.org (Greg Tow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Case Design was: Re: World of Commodore Notes
- Message-ID: <gregt.0307@colsoft.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 09:06:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec9.210126.24486@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Dec10.013930.2638@zds-oem.zds.com> <1992Dec10.194705.7047@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Dec11.010113.28499@zds-oem.zds.com>
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- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <1992Dec11.010113.28499@zds-oem.zds.com> easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec10.194705.7047@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
-
- > >Has anyone noticed that most of the recent case designs are all ugly?
- > >What is wrong with the case designers these days?
- >
- > Because they never question the Industrial Designers? :-) I remember
- > arguing with a guy over a rendering of a new front bezel. It went
- > something like this;
- >
- > him: Here's a drawing showing how we are going to style your front
- > bezel.
- > me: If you put the power switch way down there, how am I going to
- > turn the computer on and off when the keyboard covers it up?
- > him: Thats a problem? Besides, it looks better down there.
- >
- > I finally convinced him that it would be in the users best interests
- > if it was in the upper corner instead of the lower corner. He still
- > felt that it "interrupted the flow of the speed lines", or some such
- > nonsense.
-
- Oh dear :-( another sad story of an Industrial Designer throwing
- the form-functionality-ergonomic guildlines out the window.
- As a practicing Industrial Designer for the last 12 years, I am
- constantly amazed at the attitude and arrogance of *today's*
- designers. It seems that the main qualification for a degree
- in Industrial Design these days is how far they can stick their
- heads up their bums! ;^)
-
-
- > >Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate and owner of a nice but ugly A4000
- >
- > ___ ___ Jeff Easton easton@zds-oem.zds.com
-
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- Regards, Greg
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