Google Hardware Design

[anon(10092459)]

So I don't have a heavy hardware interest when it comes to tech, but I DO have an interest in the design/build philosophy.

Reading a couple of articles/interviews with Ivy Ross, one of which has a 25 min video presentation featuring her, I wonder if the foundation of the philosophy is properly rooted for the future.

She talks about Google’s design pillars:

- Technology should feel human, and it needs to be approachable, honest and humble

- Simplicity of form and function – hide the interface until you need to engage with it

- It should be optimistic, so it makes you smile

- And daring, so it can do the unexpected

I'll link the articles below, but while I think she makes some good points about their hardware design, I wonder if a younger person may provide a less perplexing approach.

https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2018/12/what-is-it-like-to-hold-google-in-your-hand-by-ivy-ross/

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-design-hardware-pixel-phone

 

[kyliemary]

Yes even brands like samsung aslo they concentrated more on Build and design and display rather than the inside spec.

 

[Rukbat]

I wonder if a younger person may provide a less perplexing approach.

If that "less perplexing approach" means making a cellphone as easy to operate as a landline, it's just not. You don't have to worry about backing up, viruses, proper battery use or passwords, on a landline. You have to understand all 3 on a cellphone.

There's no way to "develop an approach" that doesn't take at least all 4 of them into account. If you just want a cellphone that anyone can be taught all about in 2 minutes, it's not going to happen until newborns have "cellphones" implanted into their brains at birth. (And even then, everyone has a voice, but how many know how to use it to sing opera? Everyone has feet, but how many can use them to dance ballet?)

 

[anon(10092459)]

If that "less perplexing approach" means making a cellphone as easy to operate as a landline, it's just not. You don't have to worry about backing up, viruses, proper battery use or passwords, on a landline. You have to understand all 3 on a cellphone.

There's no way to "develop an approach" that doesn't take at least all 4 of them into account. If you just want a cellphone that anyone can be taught all about in 2 minutes, it's not going to happen until newborns have "cellphones" implanted into their brains at birth. (And even then, everyone has a voice, but how many know how to use it to sing opera? Everyone has feet, but how many can use them to dance ballet?)

@Rukbat Lol! You always have some of the most interesting replies!

I'm more on the design component of her philosophy. Trying to decipher what "Technology should feel human..." is a ... "different" thought approach to me.