Don Norman video

In the video Don Norman talks about his new life, beauty. He mentions the Phillipe Starck juicer that he bought, even though he doesn’t use to to make juice because he bought the gold plated version. Although that does not matter to him because the design itself is what makes him happy. His whole talk is based on the principle of good design. If a design is good, then people will be drawn to it. He also mentions a Ping-Pong table that displays water and fish and when the ball hits the table it causes ripples so the fish swim away. He says, “Is this a good way to play Ping-Pong? No, but it is fun” I would agree with him.

There are a lot of products out there that interest us. Do we need them? Not really, but we want them. Take for instance the Apple Magic Mouse or the HMDX portable speaker that I recently bought. I did not need them but I bought them anyway because I liked the way they looked and what they did. I bought them because I wanted to…and because I had the money.