John Siracusa

I'm just not impressed from a car design perspective.

The only thing that's impressive about it

is that it, it looks like a Johnny, a beautiful Apple type interior and everything is extremely expensive, made of beautiful materials.

I'm sure it feels great to you.

Like all of that, right?

But this is going to be like a, you know, $300,000 car or something.

Well, maybe 500, but anyway, I'm sure, I'm sure like, yeah, the materials better feel good.

And it's fun to do this as an exercise.

And the people who made it should be proud of the beautiful thing that they've made.

But yeah,

I don't even think it's that great of a car interior in terms of ergonomics.

I feel like the people who design the interior of the Toyota Sienna or the Honda Odyssey, those are the best designers in the industry because they find a way to have insane amounts of storage space and adjustability and cubbies for everything and things that make kids happy in the back seats and everything.

That is a harder design problem better solved than this.

Granted, that's just a bunch of cheap plastics and things that are going to be durable to spills and stuff, and it doesn't look as beautiful as this, but...

I feel like being a designer is not just like making something that satisfies the itch that you have in your brain, which is essentially when you're Johnny Ive in the stage in his career can afford to do that.

So good for him.

But like there's more to design than making a an item that you go to sleep with a smile on your face, knowing that you made it exists in the world.

It has to solve problems for users.

And I don't think this is a bad interior, but I don't think it solves problems for users in a better way.

Like it's not the best in every area than any other control.