Reviews of the new Ipad are being done to death so instead I thought I might some random thoughts on the various opportunities I see for the iPad.
But I do want to make a quick point or two.
Some odd years ago a little thing called the iPhone was released. For some it was the most amazing creation next to the planet earth itself, others didn’t quite understand what they were looking at and still others laughed and shrugged it off.
Today my mom has one. She’s a PC.
I don’t think it is the product itself that we need to be looking at, I think the opportunities that it presents to Apple and the people who use it are going to have greater impact.
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I have found myself recently considering why it is that when tell people what I do that so often the response is “well you have always been artistic” or “You have always had and eye for that”.
Inspired by a family member who, while discussing a project we will be working on together, pulled out the “artistic” card. I got to thinking, if don’t have my own family convinced that what I do is a bit more than adding embellishment or being artistic, then why should I expect my client (our clients) to understand it for more than that.
How can we go about explaining the basics of what we do using general ideas and concepts? How can we do this outside of the client/designer interaction?
The point would not be to teach a client how you might go about calculating line-height or what exact steps you might put into developing the check out process for a complex shopping cart system as you might attempt to do in educating other designers or developers. The point would be to illustrate that just as an electrician wires an extravegant home theater system or an engineer develops a complex road system, we as designers use much more than artistic ability to solve complex problems and develop best routes.
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