Someone out there has created a wonderful video of what would happen if Microsoft redesigned the iPod packaging. It’s great fun to watch, but it’s also a wonderful lesson in product design.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Commentary

  1. Dan Seitz wrote on 13. Mar 2006

    Aaaaand…the video’s been yanked. Seems like it might be something from in-house that escaped?

  2. Administrator wrote on 13. Mar 2006

    Hm. Not yanked for me. I can still load it. That’s strange.

  3. green LA girl wrote on 14. Mar 2006

    I wonder if you could enter this into that eco-packaging contest at Treehugger –

  4. green LA girl wrote on 14. Mar 2006

    Oh wait — I just checked, and it’s long over. Still — I’ve always wondered why such a big box is necessary for a product that prides itself on its teeniness –

  5. Tim Hibbard wrote on 14. Mar 2006

    Hi, Can I use this icon (http://www.robertblum.com/challengemap/icons/marker_green.png) for my google maps website (http://www.timhibbard.com/wherestim.aspx)

    Tim

  6. steve wrote on 14. Mar 2006

    By the way, you can now download YouTube videos (and many more) with KeepVid: http://keepvid.com/

  7. Robert Blum wrote on 18. Mar 2006

    Hi Tim!

    Yes, feel free to use the icon. I’ve simply taken Google’s default icon and recolored it.

  8. Tim Hibbard wrote on 12. Apr 2006

    Thanks Robert!

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