Monday November 17, 2008
"The Much Under-appreciated Principle of Pleasure"
Nick Merritt posits on why Apple creates interfaces with higher perceived quality than their competitors:
It is not just enough to make using something easy … When it comes to deciding what choices to make, it helps that a team has a supremely clear vision of the role the technology is going to play in the lives of its users, as the original Mac team did, as I suspect, the iPhone team does today, and to be fair to Microsoft, the Surface team has.
Read the full post, Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not on TechRadar.com.
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Mark Kraemer
Mark is an Information Architect and Principal Consultant at EMC in Dallas. His professional life is a Venn diagram, where he lives in the intersection of the folks who wear suits and the designers who wear flip-flops. You can catch his other ramblings on user experience and design at his personal blog, Mark-up.