Slim Devices - a design mismatch?
This sleek looking set top box is the latest in the line of smart devices that allow you to access all your music from wherever. A friend of mine owns an older model and sent me this link to the "Squeezebox" as it's named. And as designers everywhere know :) we ended up analyzing the form, sleek and gorgeous, true, but the jarring note was the cheap plastic remote that comes with it. Quite unlike the credit card piece that Bose sells with it's Wave product line. Also, the interface could do with some improvement. It's a pity that the initial aesthetics and ease of use are marred by such minor yet easily correctable issues of brand consistency.
Update 10/30: I just received an email saying that the Slim Devices people are extremely committed to good design and results will take some time. Wow! That's being designcentric organization!