Great Design I

Great Design I
According to Joel Spolsky technology and designs have gotten more complicated and harder to understand with time. He talks about a cell phone and how the icons on it don’t really make sense, with this he means that its not logical that one must use the red button to turn on a phone. He talks about how frustrating it must be to use new gadgets and that it’s getting harder and more complicated. He also talks about the bestsellers like Mac. A great design has to fulfill expectations and be simple, but at the same time be a unique piece of work.
Great Design II
In the second article Joel Spolsky is defining 2 words very specifically. The two words are great and design. He said that design has nothing to do with beauty or artistic skill, this was very surprising for me, as I had thought that design was all about that. Then he described how complicated it was to design an ideal trashcan, because for example it had to be big but small at the same time. He explains how newer technology is getting more complicated. (Thomas C. Gale said: “Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.”)
Great Design III
In this final article he is defining great design and if I understood it right, he is saying that an example of great design is an iPod. Even though mp3 players have more features and are way cheaper, the iPod is still number 1. Then he says that even if your design fulfills the criteria of a great design, for example if it meets the requirements of the consumer, the chance of it being number 1, like an iPod, is slim.

My design is an iPod, because I think its a great design, amd Joel said an iPod is a great design in article 3 . In article 2 Joel says that technology is getting more and more complicated with time. This does not apply to the iPod, the iPod has not gotten much more complicated with newer models, the way of usage is the same in the oldest and the newest model. In design 1 he says that for a design to be great, it has to fulfill the users expectations, and it does, it plays music. In design 3 he says how the iPod is bestseller and nr.1 on the market, even though it is not the best type of music player. Creative Zen is better than the iPod, because it is cheaper and it has more memory.