Most profit-seeking product people pile into the luxury market, creating temporarily-fashionable nonsense objects that rely on artificial scarcity. Those designers aren’t solving any problem except their own, and that problem is “How do I get rich?”
Thankfully, there are still plenty of designers focused on the usability of humdrum, everyday objects. By making them even a tad easier to use, or more fun to interact with, or easier to maintain, they enrich the lives of everyday people in a small but collectively significant way. That, to me, is the true power of design.
Here are some of our favorite UX improvements—or experimental attempts at them, which still deserve credit—that came across our desk this year.
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