Design Success and Failure in Relation to Syntactical Guidelines.

This example of Industrial Design success is a portable bed for homeless people. I think it’s very successful because besides of its functional and practical attributions it is a well-designed useful object that embraces a unity, balance, accuracy, and symmetry that syntactically communicate the user a very convenient way of having a better way of spending the night rather than a bed made out of cardboard, paper bags or some kind of basic materials which don’t bring comfort and reliability like this Rollmann portable bed for homeless. I believe the syntactical guidelines have been put to good use in relation to the goals for the work and targeted user because the overall work communicates clearly without ambiguity what it was designed for. There’s equilibrium which gives the sense of balance, and its harmonious and stable looking provide the user with the leveling effect which turns out to be appealing and creates confidence.

On the other hand, this lamp-table doesn’t look too appealing. Its random design went too far by actually losing all possible sense of balance, harmony, stability, and unity. It probably gives the feeling that it might collapse at some point, and the colors and materials that have been used are not congruent and this makes the overall work seem ambiguous and stressing. This is a perfect example of Industrial Design failure (or more specifically, furniture design failure) and the syntactical guidelines were obviously not taken into account in the designing process.