I have yet to come across a Porsche Design item that was actually nice to use. Their kitchen equipment looks fine but feels cheap and either doesn't work properly or breaks easily or both. I think it's a philosophy issue. Read an article lately where one of the designers obsessed about the PD/Siemens toaster's lid, a totally radical approach to the art of toasting bread — as it keeps dust and flies away when toaster is not used. Sir, it's an appliance putting out 900W in pure HEAT, a little incinerator for your breakfast-table. Even if it crawled with bugs they'd all be DEAD within moments of firing it up, along with all the nasty pestilence they carried. So please, focus and get the primary functions right before you add bells & whistles. If you don't, your product ends up putting a "clueless dork with too much money" tag on your customers. You want to avoid that.
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I have yet to come across a Porsche Design item that was actually nice to use. Their kitchen equipment looks fine but feels cheap and either doesn't work properly or breaks easily or both. I think it's a philosophy issue. Read an article lately where one of the designers obsessed about the PD/Siemens toaster's lid, a totally radical approach to the art of toasting bread — as it keeps dust and flies away when toaster is not used. Sir, it's an appliance putting out 900W in pure HEAT, a little incinerator for your breakfast-table. Even if it crawled with bugs they'd all be DEAD within moments of firing it up, along with all the nasty pestilence they carried. So please, focus and get the primary functions right before you add bells & whistles. If you don't, your product ends up putting a "clueless dork with too much money" tag on your customers. You want to avoid that.