First, it’s necessary to emphasize the beta label on this one. While most of the functions operate as advertised, there are a few fibers frayed at the ends that make the user experience less than exemplary. For one, the occasional emergence of a progress window within the MyDesignIn editor space sometimes lingers unnecessarily. Suffice it to say that it can be distracting. What’s more, the ability to drag-and-drop products onto the overhead layout of a space is very convenient, yet there are bugs in evidence. When designing a virtual kitchen, components would occasionally fail to display properly in 3D.
Yes, there’s no question that MyDesignIn requires some getting accustomed to. You might dabble in room making for the good part of an hour before you’ve made much progress in fitting items as you wish. And unless you happen to be very spartan in your ways and are quick to please, the restriction put in place to add items from the right-hand menu only when in 2D view simply brings tedium to the mix. Still, the service, given the audience it seeks to attract, has its benefits. It presents a fairly broad supply of products to the user, and if what MyDesignIn provides isn’t quite enough, you can use the available bookmark utilities to grab images from elsewhere around the Web to include in a portfolio of ideas. Admittedly, things grow a little disjointed in that respect, as MyDesignIn is naturally not intelligent enough to take odd photographs and assemble interactive graphics. But from a planner’s perspective, the service’s various features could prove handy all the same.
