Good design
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Good design
He is quoted as stating that "Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
Dieter Rams - Wikipedia
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Design is hard.
But I’ve come to realize that laying out texts properly is 80% of what makes something look clean, and is the easiest thing you can do to make your design much nicer and more usable.
Here are 10 practical tips for improving your text layout.
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As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.
I could do better than that.
Paul Graham • Taste for Makers
love this distinction between levels of design. truly higher level designs are designing solutions instead of features, outcomes instead of products. there's no function more important than this.
It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
make easy things easy, hard things possible