Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these demands on an industrial designer in the order they constrain the work.
- It must be desirable enough to be chosen
- It must be affordable to its intended buyer
- It must be durable in ordinary use
- The object must be manufacturable at scale
- It must be usable without instruction
Hints
- Start with what makes production possible at all.
- Desirability is what closes the sale, so it comes last.
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- The object must be manufacturable at scale
- It must be affordable to its intended buyer
- It must be usable without instruction
- It must be durable in ordinary use
- It must be desirable enough to be chosen
Why
The ordering is deliberately arguable, and the point is that all five hold simultaneously: which is the discipline that separates design from the fine arts. A painting need satisfy none of these, and an object that fails any one of them fails completely.
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