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how design delivers value

By grant

A Friday epigram. (It just occurred to me.)

Design was once to please the eye,
now it serves to please the mind.

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5 Comments

1

Steve Portigal
April 24th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Designers once could utter "I"
Now they work with us in kind.

2

Scott Ellington
April 24th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Design was once the ideational means to customer satisfaction.
It has become a wall of gum that circumvents interaction.

3

jkh
April 25th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

Design was once the antidote
Invented by some lovely folk
The antidote to modern times
Ninety years later it all rhymes

4

Scott Ellington
April 26th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

Designer Genes may come with instructions for care:
http://www.wiredtocare.com/?page_id=16

5

John McCreery
April 27th, 2009 at 3:07 am

Good design, when eye and mind agree in beauty
Bad design, when the eye alone is masturbating

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