Deconstructing Product Design: Exploring the Form, Function, Usability, Sustainability, and Commercial Success of 100 Amazing Products is a recently published book by William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa. The book is essentially a crowdsourced-and-curated critique of some notable products. I was thrilled to be included among an esteemed set of contributors including friends and peers like Jon Kolko, Dan Saffer, Rob Tannen, and Trevor van Gorp.
The book steps through the 100 products (including such items as Bratz Doll, Kryptonite-4 Bicycle Lock, and Vicks Forehead Thermometer) and describes the product, while including commentary from a number of contributors.
For example, here is the iPhone page, with callouts (each of which are described on a facing page), and commentary along the bottom by me and Rob Tannen.
Here’s a mostly readable version of my commentary
I also comment on other products, including Moneymaker Pump and Pot-in-Pot Cooler.
Check out reviews at Core77 and Designing for humans and buy the book at Amazon.
Tags: communityc, critique, crowdsourced, deconstructing product design, design, Gerry Manacsa, iphone, product design, User Research Interviewing, william lidwell, writing
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