Comments on: Product Design Aimed at Limiting User Capability http://www.lipsey.org/jim/2006/09/28/product-design-aimed-at-limiting-user-capability/ from the desk of Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:24:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: griselda http://www.lipsey.org/jim/2006/09/28/product-design-aimed-at-limiting-user-capability/#comment-181 griselda Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:07:32 +0000 http://www.lipsey.org/jim/2006/09/28/product-design-aimed-at-limiting-user-capability/#comment-181 Canon powershot g3-g6 reminds me of Sony VX100 video camera (a "cult" product of the 90s). Both are products that made accessible good quality and creative features to independent producers, artists and beaver souls. It seams like once in a while companies are touched by some kind of fairy or muse that has the purpose of refreshing communication through democratization of technology, but sooner than later corporations return to their ontological state of greed and the “curse of satus-quo” prevails. … “Architectures of control” sounds appropriate to me; English is not my first language and I could not find “Disaffordance” in the dictionary. Canon powershot g3-g6 reminds me of Sony VX100 video camera (a “cult” product of the 90s). Both are products that made accessible good quality and creative features to independent producers, artists and beaver souls. It seams like once in a while companies are touched by some kind of fairy or muse that has the purpose of refreshing communication through democratization of technology, but sooner than later corporations return to their ontological state of greed and the “curse of satus-quo” prevails.

… “Architectures of control” sounds appropriate to me; English is not my first language and I could not find “Disaffordance” in the dictionary.

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