Two Dads are Better than None

The adventures of two very adorable gay men trying to become fathers in a crazy ass world

1.I hate MySpace and the cheesy extension of cliques onto the net...puuulleeze
2. Is it just me or do the people on their lists of "who's cool" all appear to be dicks?
3. I hate the way it pops up songs...it is bad enough I have to read your dribble but listen to your music too?
4. Emo kids whine on and on.
5. Interface, speed and the designs that are used look like scat..no wait, that's a compliment
6. I cannot read your whining on a background like that
7. It's always trying to hook me up with 14 y/o losers who IM me: "WAZZUP!!??!~%^"
8. It signs me out when i try to search.
9. Best described by the odd words "preteen" "social" "anxiety" and "church".
10. Spams the crap out of you with stupid bands i'd like to slap

Oh dear God how i hate MySpace.

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity. To see these three in action, look at one of the icons of the 20th century -- the VW Beetle. My dad had one of the first models -- a yellow 1952 Bug. In college, I had a red 1968 model. It was one of the few cars in which I've really experienced the feeling of driving. The driver's seat was like a real chair and totally ergonomic. The car was high, comfortable, practical, and even though I could never go very fast, I felt like I was flying.

From a design standpoint, it was an incredibly simple and honest creation. Basically, the Beetle combined three semicircles: two arcs for the fenders and one large arc for the body -- pure, simple, and beautifully proportioned. And it's so human, even down to its weaknesses -- such as the heater, which never seemed to work in the old models. But we still loved the car. What makes good design? Design is not beautification. It's a thought process -- a nonlinear, spatial way of thinking in which connections are made between seemingly unrelated things. Designers are creative visual thinkers who learn to see the world differently.

Think about the Beetle: How many objects -- and cars for that matter -- make people coo?

Sohrab Vossoughi (sohrab_vossoughi@ziba.com) founded ZIBA Design Inc., a product-development firm, in 1984. Some of Ziba's clients include Nike, FedEx, McDonald's, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Hyundai, Coleman, and Rubbermaid. The first VW beetles were built in 1938 with a 985cc engine. They were named KDF-wagens -- kraft durch Freude or "power through joy."

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