july

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...

I can tell how well something is designed by how little I need to think during interaction.

The more mental bandwidth something requires, the more poorly I perceive the design

Sometimes I use things and I go

Why would you think this is a good idea

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Sometimes it’s so bad it feels malicious.

I think you’re right. But now I need to learn if and find documented cases of maliciously bad design.