Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Design by Committee



Nokia's "Design by Community" initiative gets punters to vote on aspects of their ideal concept phone. It's an interesting exercise, but I suspect it may be doomed to mediocrity, or at least inconsistency.  It brings to mind the book Painting By Numbers, by Komar and Melamid, which tells the story of an experiment to create the perfect picture, purely by listening to what viewers wanted. The "ideal" painting was a preposterous mix of classic and new, rife with inconsistencies.

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