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Re: Almaden Prototypes

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Steve Barr wrote:

> From: Steve Barr <>
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>
> Aaron Toney wrote:
> > 	So while these ideas are cool these web pages are a bit
> > misleading. They are part of their "Industrial Design Sampler", so the
> > pictures are of design concepts not of actual working designs. What is
> > confusing is that the concept devices are pictured alongside the PC 110,
> > and a calculator / PIM which were both real devices. Basically fancy blocks
> > of wood are right next to real product.
>
> All of which are valid "Industrial Design Samples," right? :-)
> Not misleading at all.

	Not only are the valid but for HCI design of this type you *have*
to go through that stage where you build up something with the look and
feel of the device you want to build to see if you would want to use it.

	The industrial design guys at the U.S.E.R lab did really good
work. That is the problem their design mockups look so much like product
prototypes that people often can't tell them apart. These pictures have
been around a while (since 1997) and you occasionally run into people
trying to reference them as working implementation which they were not.

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