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Top Gear Usability review

Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by itai vonshak in HCI, Movies, Random Thoughts, itai vonshak

I love top gear (the BBC car show) , and the reason I love top gear is that they call it as they see it. Just like a good designer does. They often say sentences like “this 100,000$ car is crap”

Below is one of my favorite car reviews of all time because even if your not a car lover (petrol head) you could still watch it and understand and relate to it….

This is the review of the BMW M5, to many people this is the best car ever, and its obvious that top gear should love this car also… so its interesting to see what went wrong.

What the reviewer has is what so many corporate people (that design and build products) lack, he is passionate about the product (in this case cars).

This is what makes this review so funny and accurate, it shows so much of what is going on in product development where the essence of a product gets lost behind menus and ridicules decisions.

People that are passionate about the product exist also in big companies, but they are rare… happily i know some of them and enjoy working with them daily.

here is the review