Allison Arieff, the former Editor in Chief of Dwell magazine, is Senior Content Lead for the design and innovation firm IDEO. In this article she discusses that in the never-ending quest to provide consumers with the newest, fastest, sleekest and most-highly-functioning-est stuff, technology companies (and their designers and engineers and marketers) often lose sight of the original purpose of the thing they are selling — not to mention the environmental and functional impacts.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Function Dysfunction
Allison Arieff, the former Editor in Chief of Dwell magazine, is Senior Content Lead for the design and innovation firm IDEO. In this article she discusses that in the never-ending quest to provide consumers with the newest, fastest, sleekest and most-highly-functioning-est stuff, technology companies (and their designers and engineers and marketers) often lose sight of the original purpose of the thing they are selling — not to mention the environmental and functional impacts.
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