http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/31/steve-jobs-on-design/ Strength in Numbers Wed, 23 May 2012 17:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/31/steve-jobs-on-design/#comment-17487 Mark Forscher Blog » Blog Archive » Steve Jobs on Design Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:05:50 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1103#comment-17487 [...] “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like… People think it’s this veneer—that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” -Steve Jobs, 2003 in the New York Times. [via flowing data] [...] [...] “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like… People think it’s this veneer—that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” -Steve Jobs, 2003 in the New York Times. [via flowing data] [...]

]]> http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/31/steve-jobs-on-design/#comment-17318 Josh Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:34:09 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1103#comment-17318 The best products don't need an instruction manual, because they do exactly what you wanted them to in exactly the way you would imagine. Since you can only serve a majority this way, I assume there were some design choices made tough by some outlying users' understanding. Or maybe that's when you return to the drawing board. In fact, I wonder what the threshold is for feature intuitiveness over there? The best products don’t need an instruction manual, because they do exactly what you wanted them to in exactly the way you would imagine.
Since you can only serve a majority this way, I assume there were some design choices made tough by some outlying users’ understanding. Or maybe that’s when you return to the drawing board. In fact, I wonder what the threshold is for feature intuitiveness over there?

]]>