"This is why industrial designers should not be allowed to design product until they have had at least a modicum of experience trying to sell products first."
so i guess what you're saying is that we should get jobs working at the mall, pushing 2 year cell phone contracts, before we even start designing cell phones?
dude, chill out. this is a STUDENT competition for designing a 5G phone [read: way in the future], and the winner of the competition gets an internship. this isn't the "hi, we're Nokia. why don't you students design our 2007 phone line?"-contest. and from my experience, when a company has a student competition like this, if you designed a device like "someone who had fat fingers, poor hearing, wears glasses and has to drive a lot for a job", i can tell you that they would pretty much disregard your design. why? because they don't want to see designs that they could make and sell by the end of the week. they want to see new ways of thinking, and ideas that are beyond what's currently available,
"And by the way Nokia..it's a PHONE, not a "User Experience" or a "multimedia computing device""
alright, so i'm guessing the phone you're currently using has no other function than making calls, huh? because creating a good user experience with the interface, or having multimedia access...those are just outrageous ideas, and stuff like that would never catch on in the mobile phone world, present and future, right?
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"This is why industrial designers should not be allowed to design product until they have had at least a modicum of experience trying to sell products first."
so i guess what you're saying is that we should get jobs working at the mall, pushing 2 year cell phone contracts, before we even start designing cell phones?
dude, chill out. this is a STUDENT competition for designing a 5G phone [read: way in the future], and the winner of the competition gets an internship. this isn't the "hi, we're Nokia. why don't you students design our 2007 phone line?"-contest. and from my experience, when a company has a student competition like this, if you designed a device like "someone who had fat fingers, poor hearing, wears glasses and has to drive a lot for a job", i can tell you that they would pretty much disregard your design. why? because they don't want to see designs that they could make and sell by the end of the week. they want to see new ways of thinking, and ideas that are beyond what's currently available,
"And by the way Nokia..it's a PHONE, not a "User Experience" or a "multimedia computing device""
alright, so i'm guessing the phone you're currently using has no other function than making calls, huh? because creating a good user experience with the interface, or having multimedia access...those are just outrageous ideas, and stuff like that would never catch on in the mobile phone world, present and future, right?