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Jilber Najem and
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One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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Working With Rick Rubin on ‘The Creative Act: A Way of Being’
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People talk about how AI is going to make design obsolete, and/or make pixel perfect designs not be a thing anymore. I don't think so.
Pixel-perfect design mostly existed in designers’ minds anyway. The mocks might perfect but the final product rarely was. Most of the time,
Karri Saarinenx.com
- In all the time I’ve spent watching people use the Web, the thing that has struck me most is the difference between how we think people use Web sites and how they actually use them. When we’re creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading all of our carefully crafted text, figuring out how we’ve organized
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug – The Rabbit Hole
