I've been asked to come up with some (physical) examples of Good and Bad design - I've done this, but I'm not very pleased with my ideas... What do you think?
Good design -
F1 Racing car (ultimate!),
Memory stick (meh!),
A very old but very neat bottle opener which belonged to my dad - Special because it had a very clever cam on the handle/thread which meant that you turned the handle one way to both put the screw into the cork and to pull it after - Very neat! (a bit like this)
Bad Design - Atriculated / Bendy Bus
Does anyone else have any suggestions (esp. for BAD designs) please
What's wrong with the bendy bus?
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest looking at Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things. It's got loads of examples, like light switches that aren't anywhere near the lights they control. There's also a great example of information overload: the controls at Three Mile Island nuclear plant were so uniform, employees replaced them with beer taps.
Well, in London, where all the roads are tiny non-uniform (lots of narrow 90o corners), they just don't work! Lots of cyclists have been injured by them... Pedestrians on corners have to beware, too-Probably fine for NY or Manhattan, but in London, they fail!
ReplyDeleteMobile phones are another good example -
They have bendy busses in the narrow 18th century streets of Rennes.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't London get its act together?
*falls over laughing*
ReplyDeleteHave you seen and/ or heard Boris?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/image_galleries/bendybus_story_gallery.shtml
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