I'm 50/50 on this one. On one hand, yes, absolutely. On the other, there's lots more to the design than just its outline. Materials used, touch and feel, hardware switches... I remember holding a very new but compact iPhone a few years back. It felt so fucking good. Sturdy. Those rounded corners were actually a metal band going all around the phone. Not too big, not too small. Not too thin, either.

I also sorely miss the Nokia N9 in this picture - another of these devices you have to actually hold in your hand, or know a little more about, to appreciate the design. I mean the design is cool to even look at, but the shell is also carved out from a hard plastic block. That's beyond sturdy, and feels very good in your hand.

the apt i live in isnt mine either. plus i have to pay to live on it.

Calling the big grey bezels of old TVs stylish is certainly an interesting take.

Smartphone where almost a solved problem til LG stopped making the V20 and made the next one with a sealed battery.

Combine the hardware features of an LG V20 and grapheme is, and you might have a phone actually fucking worth using. I want my DAC and 16 screw disassembly back, fuckers.

Nah, flagship stuff is overpriced. 3x the price for a bit better camera AI and a glass back that breaks after a drop from 10cm.

OK. Suppose so.

I've just been reminded that in the wonderful 70s people felt a bit similarly suppressed and the future dim as compared to 60s as we do now as compared to 00s.

Nothing is new.

What is important, though, is that nothing existing has been given to us be benevolent or harsh, kind or cruel gods. It has all been built by people just like us.

To dream and to work are the most important parts.

It’s funny to think that when everything is made more cheap, the more they cost.

Picked a great time to follow my dream as an industrial designer, only to graduate during COVID and realize that not a single company actually cares to improve the user experience of their products or systems.

Feels like I got a more exclusive and more expensive art degree.

Many years ago Nokia made a couple prototypes of an official Star Trek communicator phone

I would do some seriously regrettable things to have one of these that works with modern networks.

team moto razr here!

Yeah people often mention the funny phone designs from the 2000's but they also praise the Nokia 3310 for its reliability.

Been reading Vonnegut again and it's astonishing how he's calling out the exact same societal ills we have today. Only thing he missed was global warming and that's because many in the 70s thought we were headed for an ice age.

Lost my Oukitel WP33 Pro. Really neat phone, weight like a Colt .45, and about as easy to carry.

Yeah, and personally, I don't feel any wish to go back to skeuomorphism. It is funny to look back to and feel some nostalgia, but I think it would look cheap now if they did it like 15 years ago. Maybe iOS' glassy-ui will create some elements that people like about it, but they luckily did not move back to busy ui element backgrounds.

I do partially agree with his buttons and app-points. I dislike how we are forced to download apps for everything, including the questionable tracking software.

Laptop has been solved?, then why are the hinges on most of my laptops garbage that become creaky and eventually break.

I do partially agree with his buttons and app-points. I dislike how we are forced to download apps for everything, including the questionable tracking software.

I also agree with this.

Disco Elysium is a more recent look.

I haven’t had a hinge failure on a MacBook for 20 years.

Go create something, im not sure the market is but I want non dominant designs and less dark patterns.

While your average early/mid 2000's CRT TV is certainly not stylish, I do appreciate the buttons and convenient access to a set of inputs and the headphone jack. Today's TVs are all form over function, which is especially annoying since the form is just a black slab.