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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
The discussion about iPhone 12’s design is as much about our relationship with the past as it is about design. “The past is everywhere,” David Lowenthal, a Cambridge University historian, wrote in his book, The Past is a Foreign Country. “All around us lie features with more or less familiar antecedents. Relics, histories, memories suffuse human experience…Ever more of the past, from the exceptional to the ordinary, from remote antiquity to barely yesterday, from the collective to the personal, is nowadays filtered by self-conscious appropriation.”
Why Great Design Is Timeless
om.co
From the time you take your first breath, you become eligible to die.
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
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