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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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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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