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putting soup in a square tupperware...... it’s just not right. it should be a circle one which is the shape of soup
to make the thing is to make its impact, its memory, the product of its extended use, its legacy, and its language. "Good Design", such that it might exist, is the art of building this phantom value in the future from the most minimal physical compromise in the present.
David Rudnicktwitter.comLike many writers before me, I tend to lean on vague hand-waving when the need to define taste, or rather, good taste, arises. A common trope is to use the phrase US Supreme Court justice Stewart famously gave to describe obscenity, a similarly hard-to-describe bedfellow of taste, in 1964: “I know it when I see it.” In design, good taste can be kno... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
Here the object is viewed as a container for the material.
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
Bug 🚫: "This product is too basic. It doesn't offer enough features."
Feature ✅: "We do one thing–and one thing only: Help you get X done.”
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