Homers car design


The Homer Simpson car is a great lesson in building products | by Patrick Thornton

One of the first things I do in all of my classes is show this clip of Homer Simpson trying to design a car. I’m serious.

It’s a great lesson in how not to build a product.

Watch it, and then let’s walk through why it has so many great lessons for product design and development.

One of the things that makes the Homer Simpson Car clip so interesting is that Homer has real desires in a car that are perfectly reasonable. As designers our job is to figure out people’s problems and desires and translate those into great products.

Homer wants a large car because he is a family man with three kids and two pets. He’d also like ways to not be distracted by his three kids while he is driving. He wants places to put his drinks.

Homer often struggles to find his car when he parks in a large parking lot. Homer wants a car that is pretty quick because he wants to feel alive every now and then in his suburban dad life.

All of this is great feedback from a user. Understanding the problems Homer faces and understanding his life is a great way to inform design. By utilizing contextual inquiry and user interviewing, we can find out the problems that people like Homer face and synthesize that data and translate it into actionable requirements to build again.

Where the Homer Simpson Car implodes is that it lets a user actually design the car. Homer is not a designer. He has no idea how to design anything.

So it ends up that Homer has really bad solutions to his problems. He can’t take sensible requirements and make them into good product design. Almost no user can. Don’t let users design your products for you.

But good product design is not about letting your users design your products for you — it’s about solving users problems and making their lives better.

A lot of you are allowing Homer Simpson to design your products

“Whhhhhhhat?” I hear you saying. The ability to translate feedback from users (after gathering it in a methodical way) and translating that into requirements is a real skill.

Never ask your users what to build. Ask your users what they are trying to do.

How can you avoid building the Homer Simpson Car?

Before you ask, observe

Start off with contextual inquiry. Watch people go about their lives and do their work. After you observe, start asking questions.

Rock your users interviews

User interviewing is a great combination with contextual inquiry. You observe and then you ask questions. The key to good user interviewing is to ask good, probing questions. Never lead the user!

Translate your user research into thoughtful requirements

Synthesize your research and then translate it into thoughtful requirements. When you sythensize research, you should also be abstracting it. Build your requirements around solving problems for users. Focus on activities.

Activities go across users and often even cultures. Design for activities by translating your research into the core activities your users are trying to do.

Follow a well-defined rubric when designing new products

This is the rubric we use at FiscalNote and here are the guidelines for good product design we follow. It helps get everyone at the company speaking the same language and understanding how we define good.

Homer wasn’t wrong

It wasn’t Homer’s fault that the car he designed turned out so badly — it was the fault of the company that asked a random person off the street to design their product. A lot of you are letting Homers design your products and then blaming them when things turn out poorly!

Don’t ask random people to build your products. Take ownership over your own work, and take ownership on your users being successful.

Our most important job as product designers is to take ownership of the success of our users.

FINALLY: Homer Simpson-Designed Car ‘The Homer’ Comes to Life

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It's powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball. Oh, and it has a "Bort" license plate.

By Doug Aamoth June 27, 2013

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Season 2, Episode 15 of The Simpsons was a true classic. We learned that Homer had a half-brother named Herb Powell (voiced by Danny DeVito), who ran a car company in Detroit called Powell Motors.

Well, Herb needed some ideas for a new car and he turned to Homer to help him build a car that would appeal to the masses. Homer came up with “The Homer,” a wonderful mess of an automobile with the tagline “The Car Built for Homer.”

Here are the car’s features, according to the Simpsons Wiki:

  • The Homer has two bubble domes; one in the front, while the one in the back is for quarreling kids, and comes with optional restraints and muzzles.
  • According to Homer, the engine sound causes people to think “the world’s coming to an end.”
  • There are three horns, as Homer claims that “you can never find a horn when you’re mad.” The three horns play the song “La Cucaracha.”
  • The car also features gigantic cupholders, which actually became a feature on many cars in the 1990s onward.
  • The car has various outdated features such as bubble domes, shag carpeting, and tailfins. It also has a metal bowler as a hood ornament.

The Homer was marketed as, “powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball” and “designed for the average man.

How much did such incredible automotive refinement cost? The Homer’s sticker price was $82,000. Unsurprisingly, Herb’s company quickly went out of business. But that doesn’t mean The Homer isn’t an appealing automobile to the right person.

As you can see in the above video, the team at Porcubimmer Motors has taken the bold, bold steps of making The Homer a reality. What’s more, it’s a race car. The team will be racing The Homer at the 24 Hours of LeMons race on June 29 in Buttonwillow, California.

Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball sounds like the ultimate combination for a race car. Looks like this race will be over before it even starts.

The Homer – a 24 Hours of LeMons race car [HomerCar.com via @SpeedSportLife via  @Tim_Stevens]

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Owning a car in Turkey is not cheap. Prices for cars, gasoline, taxes, insurance do not get tired of unpleasantly surprising drivers.

Today we will tell you how much it will cost to buy and maintain a car in Turkey!

Despite this, the Turks are very fond of cars and every middle class family has at least one car.

However, let's get down to specifics.

How much does it cost to maintain a car in Turkey?

Here are some of the expenses that await you if you can't imagine life without a steering wheel. nine0011


When buying a car in Turkey

A special consumption tax called ÖTV is what raises the price of cars in Turkey.

The ÖTV tax in Turkey at the end of 2021 ranges from 45% to 220% of the value of the car, depending on the engine size.

Literally a month ago, the state reduced the rate of this tax, but even now it is not a small amount.

For example, for a mid-range car with an engine capacity of up to 1,600 cm3, the ÖTV tax rate will be 50% of the car's value. nine0054

Value Added Tax (VAT) which in Turkish is called KDV - (18%)

Electric vehicles are also not exempt from these taxes.

For electric vehicles, the ÖTV tax is calculated from the engine power in KW and currently ranges from 10 to 60% of the value of the vehicle. VAT for electric vehicles will be the same as for normal cars and will be 18%.

Car maintenance taxes in Turkey

This is the so-called transport tax, which is called MTV. nine0031

It is calculated based on 3 factors: engine size, car cost and age.

For example, the MTV tax for the most popular middle class, for cars aged from 1 to 3 years and with an engine size from 1301 to 1600 cm3 and costing more than 99.000 TL, will be 2.197 liras per year, or approximately 250 dollars per year at the rate of September 2021.

It can be paid simultaneously or 2 times a year in equal installments.

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Compulsory transport insurance

It will also be necessary to pay for compulsory OSAGO insurance, according to Turkish Zorunlu Trafik Sigortası.

Its size depends on whether your car was in an accident and ranges from 800 to 3.500 Turkish liras for cars, if you take an average of 1.500 liras, then it turns out the cost of OSAGO is 170 dollars per year.

You can also take out additional insurance (Casco). It also depends on many factors, its average size can be estimated at around 2.300 liras or 260 dollars per year. nine0011

Inspection in Turkey

Inspection for light vehicles is carried out once every 2 years. The average cost for passenger cars is 372.88 TL in 2021, or roughly $42.

Gasoline and Diesel in Turkey

Fuel in Turkey has long been famous for its rather high prices. The only thing that pleases is that it is of very good quality and you do not have to worry about the engine of your car.

95th gasoline now costs about 8 liras per liter, or about 0. 90 dollars per liter, diesel around 7.5 lire.

Refueling with gas will cost approximately 5.2 liras or 0.59 dollars.

Fuel prices may vary slightly between Turkish cities and filling station networks.

We hope this information was useful to you.

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