Take a look at your phone. Examine all the fancy new features it might have, be it internet, the latest games, voice activation or itunes top 10 songs as your ringtone. It has become an accessory that can match any outfit with all the latest phone covers that sport your favorite color or your dedication as a sports fan with your favorite team logo. Visually, the phone has gone from a clunky, typically black heavy object, to a small sleek and slender personalize-able rectangle that is becoming easier and easier to lose. While some phones best feature is the visual appeal, what does color, shape, size and durability mean if basic functions are not being improved.I find that while phones are becoming more and more advanced, many are missing simple functional aspects. For example, is it not true that most phone screens become extremely difficult to see in direct sunlight? The content of the phone, the literal message that your object is displaying to you through icons on your iphone or just the numbers of the time of day on your home page, is being overlooked and left behind in the marketing world when companies feel the need to engineer the best keyboard or the coolest applications.
When is design going to take a step back and look at the most important part of its objects, the reason it was designed in the first place. Isn't a car a car if it gets you from point A to point B? So why isn't my phone even letting me make a call in the middle of the day? Why does it seem that design is moving in a direction that is sacrificing function for form?
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