Introduction

When I asked my Dad to help me by doing some charitable donation towards my wallet as I had to buy the Nokia 8800(Gold), he mysteriously smiled and told me to check my wallet the next morning. To my utter surprise, I found a note that said “Mobile phones are meant for talking. What to do with a flashy jazzy instrument. Please find Rs 500 note behind”.

Is that really so? Then why so much money is being poured in for designing interfaces? If TV is for watching movies not the TV itself, why LG’s Scarlet boasts itself to be the “Hot New Series of TVs from LG”? On a funnier note, it leaves another doubt in our mind, “Are the days over when actors and models used to be hot” apart from your favorite colleagues, classmates, college buddies etc? Why can’t we just add features and keep continuing with the existing models, thus, just investing in R&D instead of look and feel? Are humans more receptive to appearance than to functionality? The more potent question, “Does it apply to websites also?” Read more…