Copy cat design, and the smell of it

Copycat designand the smelly ness

Tuesday 30 November 2010

What’s design?


“Design is how things work”


design = form+function



Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal



music portable designed easy itunes


music portable designed easy itunes


music + portable + designed + easy + itunes



phone touch designed easy appstore


phone touch designed easy appstore


phone + touch + designed + easy + appstore



Copy cat blindness1



Keep your users in mind


‣ Male / female‣ Age‣ Computer knowledge‣ Internet knowledge‣ ...



Target Audience2



Coolness vs Usefulness




What’s the added value?3



Containership



Containership is a visual grouping technique that shows spatial relationship of similar items or actions.


Adapt & integrate4







function = behavior


Seeing the form: getting the idea Evolve the form: develop the idea





Copy behavior5






Design is progress


this doesn't work!


“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”


Copy cat blindness1

Target Audience2

What’s the added value?3

Adapt & integrate4

Copy behavior5


Proximity,Start your copiers!
