After reading this brilliant and insightful piece from a visual designer from Google, I am wondering again where the voice of industrial designers is. Though the web is primarily the playground of those who design for it, I haven’t yet found a single industrial design blog online. The closest I can find is the forum-based community on Core77. Who are the thought leaders of the profession, and what in the hell are they talking about? Is ID so inaccessible that it defies common understanding? Given how much insight and similarity I can extrapolate from ANY design blog and apply to my own profession at a general level, I rather doubt it.

I’m beginning to think the thought leaders are, in fact, web and software designers. They’re the ones who have their finger on the pulse of technology far ahead of product designers. So, they are the first ones to have to adapt their thinking to cope with it. ID comes second, maybe third.