Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Week 6 Blog Exercise - Design Success and Failure in Relation to Syntactical Guidelines

Back to the things I like. Fairly basic, your norm run of the mill iPhone. Although this is a concept version of the phone, it is very much like the latest release. This concept drawing uses balance and familiarity to the end user, as its advantage, new features displayed and the new overall look of the phone. Through perception, the different angles at which the phone can be looked at are given within the concept drawings. The newest release of the iPhone4 embodies a bold contrast between is surround casing (metal, cool to touch) and thick glass on its faces which are black. Sleek and stylish, this phone has changed the world as we know it, even for those who oppose it.


Next we have the Brill, from Virgin Mobile. The look and feel of this phone is very clumsy, awkwardly placed keys and oddly shaped phone. This is perhaps for the ease of use for right handed people (majority of this world), but what about left handed people? Its shape is irregular, unlike most phones, rectangle or at least near square in shape, this phone embodies a hump. This phone design has no balance, its keys are different colors for the number pad, unfamiliar. The Brill has several stress points, the outer casing and the keys, there is a variance in the balance of the phone. Its not a phone you'd pick up if you were to be out shopping for a phone.

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