Function and Personality

The first chapter of Materials and Design by Mike Ashby and Kara Johnson introduces what the book is about and why industrial design is important. One thing I think that is important in this chapter is how it emphasizes how important design is to products. Design helps people connect to products so the can like them. It also discusses what is important in products, such as it must function properly but it also must be easy and convenient to use. I think that ease of use and function are very vital to how industrial designer design things. Another important point I think that the book made was how advances in materials enables advances in industrial design. This means that the further we invest in material sciences, the more we will be able to develop industrial design. The first chapter was very insightful about the importance of industrial design and the materials that do with it.