A successful product is rarely produced by an accident. Most of them come and leave without making any significant impact but some really leave their marks and catch our attention. A successful product is a perfect mix of business acumen, lots of data gathering, painstaking analysis, ideation of product, initial prototyping, user testing, and finally building the product with lots of ergonomics and aesthetics input.
Sugar Shaker
It is an amazingly great design by Henry Keck of a simple ubiquitous household product. It has already been sold 35 million times.
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From Apple Store
Apple is famous for creating lifestyle products with style. They have proved themselves again and again over the years. Starting from Mac series of product to iPod to iPhone, with its innovative design and captivating aesthetics they are the definite frontrunners of the new century.
Apple iPhone
Finally Apple’s revolutionary phone, which had given sleepless nights to millions was launched. As expected, the ballyhoo was more from audiences than the company.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
Apple iPod touch
After the phenomenal success of iPhone, the iPod cult received the gift in the form of iPhone. Amazingly animated graphics combined with superb product design created another option for iPod lovers to entertain themselves.
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http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/
Apple Air
After creating sensation in phone and mp3 players, Apple created another tsunami by launching Apple Air. Apple Air is an amazing combination of aesthetics and functionality.
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http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/macbook-air-review/
Toshiba Portege R400
Another laptop with great design and worth talking about is Toshiba Portege R400. This is the laptop that I always wanted to buy. It is always on and its screen swivels along the unique joint designed by Toshiba.
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http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/ebtext.to?page=r400_micro
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2079483,00.asp
Amazon Kindle
It has always been difficult to carry books and newspaper around while traveling in the hustle bustle of office hours. There is a good new for such avid readers as Amazon has launched its Kindle. A reading device which is capable of carrying 1000s of books with expandable memory, moreover, Kindle’s reading interface matches actual paper as there is no backlight attached to it.
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http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/11/amazon-kindle-meet-amazons-e-book-reader/
Only thing that stands out is the Sugar shaker :)
ReplyDeleteI think we've seen with Apple that, once again, they have created a truly transformational product in the iPhone. It transforms the user experience, in that people think of it differently than they do, say, a Nokia phone. It's no longer a phone, it's an iPhone--and the connection with it and the way it connects to users' lives is radically different.
ReplyDeleteSee Alan Cooper's keynote from interactions '08: here