5 designers pick their 5 favorite product experiences, hear more at Roadmap

The design of a product isn’t really about aesthetics, it’s about the experience created from the product (as Om put it in this post this week). That’s one of the underlying themes of our annual Roadmap conference, to be held on Nov. 5th and 6th (yes, two weeks away!).

And it’s also the reason why we asked five of our favorite design-focused folks to weigh in on the five product designs that represent the very best in experience design. Here are their top picks, and they’ll be discussing these more at Roadmap in a final session to sum up the 2-days.

Shoshana Berger, Editorial Director, IDEO

: Square Wallet & Card Reader: The startup makes a sleek mobile payment system.

: Spark Camera: A video app that lets you apply filters.

: Smart locks like the one from Goji allow mobile and keyless entry.

: Haptic Lab city quilts: Blankets designed from GPS maps (San Francisco above).

: MakerBot Replicator 2: A low cost mobile 3D printer for the maker community.

Josh Brewer, former Principal Designer, Twitter

: iPhone: Apple’s highly successful foray into the smartphone market. First released in 2007, it now has 5 generations and has sold over 250 million.