"Ugliness doesn't sell."
-Raymond Loewy, an influential industrial designer
Like I said, industrial design is an applied art concerned with the form of a manufactured product. Industrial designers shape products to fit the people who use them. They work with the parts of a product that humans interact with, striving to make the product easy and safe to use. They give a product a look and feel that makes us want to use it.
The term "industrial design" was coined in early twentieth century, when mass-production began to replace individual artisans. Manufacturers knew that products that worked better and looked better than comparable products would also sell better.
Industrial designers study how we live, how we move about, and how we use objects, so they'll know how to design things that will work better than before.
Good designers ask themselves three questions when designing a product.
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