Spot on, Russ.
Read this, folks.
Link: RussellBeattie.com – Some Nokia N95 and S60 Thoughts:
The thing which makes me crazy though, is this isn’t an *engineering* issue, it’s an organization issue. It’s a usability and design issue. It’s is not about how many resources you can throw at the problem, but how well the leaders of the company can make decisions and ensure those decisions are kept throughout the company. If you delegate decisions on the look and feel and form of your key devices, then they’ll get designed by commitee – or worse, by engineers – and then generally suck. This is what’s happened with the S60. The people who are in charge at Nokia need to demand a clean GUI and then make sure it’s accomplished.
I think we’re going to have to wait for the new Multimedia menu we got a preview of at the Go Play event. This one: