- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
- Advantage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.
- Achievement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020