Could not agree more. I have design based startup where we do digital home staging for real estate clients and this is our most difficult problem, getting past the subjectivity of interior design.
It's funny to see the exact same furniture used for various different clients and see the wide range of feedback we get from "I love it" to "that looks terrible" and usually the negative feedback is always expressed as definitive comments like "that does not work" or "this NEEDS to be changed". Someone recently even went so far as to say that a mug should be next to a coffee machine instead of a cup.
Even though we state that we are appealing to the majority of home buyers and not individual preferences I have yet to find a good way to get past design subjectivity. I think it is just human nature to inject our preferences into artistic things and express them as if it is the other person's work that sucks.
Could not agree more. I have design based startup where we do digital home staging for real estate clients and this is our most difficult problem, getting past the subjectivity of interior design.
It's funny to see the exact same furniture used for various different clients and see the wide range of feedback we get from "I love it" to "that looks terrible" and usually the negative feedback is always expressed as definitive comments like "that does not work" or "this NEEDS to be changed". Someone recently even went so far as to say that a mug should be next to a coffee machine instead of a cup.
Even though we state that we are appealing to the majority of home buyers and not individual preferences I have yet to find a good way to get past design subjectivity. I think it is just human nature to inject our preferences into artistic things and express them as if it is the other person's work that sucks.