It seems that now a days tech companies focus more on form than function. Giving the illusion of function by increasing it’s visual form. And if that said visual form is damaged then, because so much investment has been made in focusing so much on it’s form, it’s function is assumed to be lost and therefore is thrown away or wasted. Money has been in turn wasted. You have to focus on a systems function first and then build on top of the function with a given form. If you do this the opposite way then you limit yourself in what you can develop because you are now restricted to building around the form in which you developed. Now this can come in handy when it comes to invention. It create visual holes in your knowledge in which you can spend time to work around and develop/research for. Like a goal or an objective. However if you are developing a product then you may not have either the time nor the knowledge to actually achieve this research.
Everyday I go online to places such as Kickstarter and see these things that make a claim without sufficient evidence and people will just believe it because it looks nice. Asthetics is nice only if it follows a give function. Imagine if you bought a cool looking car, however once you get in you discover that it is actually just a paper mache model. We are getting to that point when it comes to technology.
This is propagated by the increase in the demand in reduced price while also an increase in asthetical’s. People no longer have the ability to determine the difference between what does and does not work and make the lazy conclusion/assumption that it is just magical and if it is broken then it does not work. This is a fear fallacy, you need to be brave enough to look inside and ask, ” how does this work?” If not then you will spend more money on just throwing something away without being able to fully understand how it works.
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