No, not that Real World. Our mortgage paying real world.

Business Week has posted an article on the newly announced (but not newly released - drats!) Apple iPhone. The article is pertinent to us because it throws concepts of last week’s discussion on design into sharp relief. Without getting bogged down in the minutia of the product details themselves, give the article a read (here <-). Really.

I’ll wait.

Now that you’ve read it (you did read it, right?), come to class prepared to tell me and the class how it throws concepts of last week’s discussion on design into sharp relief. How does it apply to our working definition of what design is? What lessons can (potentially) be applied to what we intend to do with communication (visual) design?