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1/n I like well designed things. A lot of people say they like well designed things. But what does it mean for something to be well designed? I think about this a lot - I think 9 times out of 10, I just know. Well designed objects are thoughtful, I'm using it, and I feel like the person who made this thought about this idea a lot. They thought about this idea a lot and picked out something that they thought would be the best out of the many options. Also many of them have some sort of thesis, some sort of stance about the world. They are a statement in some way, about how things should be, or how things will be, and what you identify with, and you identify with that too, and that's why you feel affinity for it perhaps I love well designed things that have really throughly been could have only been made by that person, or the designer, or a certain style. It's sort of the personal part that is the most exciting to me. Yeah, but there's more...
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2/ How do you get the personal part of the design across? I think everyone has a different process, but when I've tried to design things in the past, I have a general sense of what I like and what I don't like. So first, if you know what you like / what you don't like that puts you at a head start (and this like / dislike could be different from object to object. I might know what kind of Sofas I like, but I haven't done a ton of research on chairs) - so first is getting that sense of what you like and what you don't like If you don't know what you like or what you don't like, I think the first part is just consuming lots of stuff. Consuming media, and experiences of the thing itself that you want to design kind of starts to give you a design language to work with, and a thought about huh I want to make that thing, or I like that thing, and slowly over time this grows. This can take any where from a few days to a lifetime. Hopefully, it never ends Once you have a sense of what, then next is experimentation
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It’s interesting that most people are able to appreciate good design yet so few are able to create it. Kant was way ahead of his time for distinguishing the faculty of taste from that of genius.
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Was trying to explain design to somebody who hadn't been exposed to the larger idea of design and what constantly came to mind was "a thing that is congruent with it's purpose". I think congruence itself has a massive underlying role (in many places) but in design especially. Does it behave in a way that you'd expect? In a way that's congruent with it's setting and purpose? I'm definitely not an excellent designer, but it was helpful to spend time with good ones to understand that it's not just about 'looks'. Before I learned that I was being extremely reductionist in how I viewed design.
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in my opinion, good design often comes from a process that I would define as the process of taking away. The moment you start to think about it too much, that’s probably the moment you should let the work settle like a good wine. Of course, a great knowledge of the subject gives you a great advantage over what you like and what you don’t like. I like it when you say “that a lot of time is spent in a state of uncertainty but then the magic happens”. I think the important thing is what you do in that space of time between uncertainty and magic. Sometimes it would be enough to do nothing.
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I tend to only like well designed things.
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How interesting to read what you propose, if it is useful to you it is good to read these things, do not stop doing it bro
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cc @lambchop, I think we both resonate with this
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I feel like you’d like Achille Castiglioni’s bottle opener.
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