I've never heard of Dieter Rams before this thread; I'm not hip to the design world. But some designs do raise my pulse while I looking from the sidelines. Henry Dreyfuss' Western Electric Model 302 phone [1] is a good example.
That phone has the nostalgia effect; that's good in design. Design should be nostalgic, in the sense that it should recall things that you're familiar with and feel comfortable around.
It's useful to look at design as communication. Your trying to same something with the right metaphors. But in this case, it's with three dimensional metaphors instead of words.
I've never heard of Dieter Rams before this thread; I'm not hip to the design world. But some designs do raise my pulse while I looking from the sidelines. Henry Dreyfuss' Western Electric Model 302 phone [1] is a good example.
That phone has the nostalgia effect; that's good in design. Design should be nostalgic, in the sense that it should recall things that you're familiar with and feel comfortable around.
It's useful to look at design as communication. Your trying to same something with the right metaphors. But in this case, it's with three dimensional metaphors instead of words.
[1] http://www.telephonearchive.com/phones/we/we302.html