Just about everyone has a “design for assembly” bucket list. It could be a collection of things you want to do just to make you feel more accomplished. These items range in price from a few dollars to hundreds.
I’m not the best person to compare the price of certain products to because I’m not a budget-conscious person. But if I had to, I’d compare the price of my design to the price of a used laptop. That’s the closest I can come to an exacting metric.
When I was in high school, I went to an assembly for my laptop class. It was $50. Then I looked at the price of the laptop I had been using and said, “Naw. Thats $50.” And that was my budget for my assembly bucket list. Now, Im not sure if I would have done it if I had the budget to spend it on. But I think I would have gotten a higher performance laptop and not a lower quality one.
I think the same thing goes for design. If you have a budget to spend on your design, why not spend it on a better laptop? Im just saying to put your design budget on the table and see what happens.
Im not saying its a bad thing for a designer to build a good laptop or good design. Its just that most of us really don’t have a budget for either. I dont really have a budget for a good laptop, but I do have a budget for a good design. I say that because I would use a bad laptop from time to time, but I have a budget for a good design.
I think that’s a really good thing to say. I just think you can be too cheap and not be able to do good designs. If you spend too much money on a bad design, that’s kind of like spending too much money on a bad shirt, or a bad jacket. You can’t afford a good shirt, or a good jacket, so you end up wearing a shirt or a jacket that’s not really good, and is just ugly.
The most important thing to remember about a good design is that it is the most important thing to remember because it has to be the most important thing to remember. A good design is one that has something to look at, something to feel, something to see. Not just the design itself, but how it works, and how it looks. A good design doesn’t just look good, it works well.
Designers are artists that create things that look good, and that work well. But they aren’t designers that have the ability to think of a few ideas that might work. They are designers that have the ability to think of a few ideas that might be a good idea, but they don’t have the ability to test the idea out.
Like all of the other designers we’ve found, we have some very simple ideas about how a design could work. But we are limited in how much we can put out there because if we did, then it might be taken wrong. We need to put out a lot of ideas, but we need to test them out first.
We’ve found that if we are doing a lot of design for assembly we take too long. We spend so much time figuring out how it should look or use the right things that it takes us far longer to get it right. We need to get the design in place so we can start testing it.