Blog #4

The biggest part for a designer in designing a user based product is to be professional. Hoekman stresses more is not always better. "Stick to what's truly essential..." (pg. 60). The designer needs to decide what is most important and implement those things in an effective way. On deciding what new features and changes need to be made, I tend to be utilitarianistic. Successful designers should not act on every suggestion that is made but only those that benefit the majority of the population. New ideas are not always better. On our second project, my partner and I wanted to declutter the dashboard while offering more options. We succeeded in proving the "Less is More" example that Hoekman also stated, but kept our ideas too broad. We needed to zero in on one aspect of the machine and its usability instead of changing a lot of different things. You need to take desiging one step at a time.
-JS