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Emotional Design

Usability guru Don Norman makes a case for the useless. Now that’s truly useful! (But I wish the cover was designed to be sensitive to my own emotions …)

The Innovator’s Solution

Change is inevitable, so how do you be in charge or aware of the conditions when it occurs?

Motivation and Personality

Before the Web became the basis of our intellectual survival, Abraham Maslow was wondering what really motivates people in the analog world.

The Tipping Point

The need to simplify has reached a tipping point … otherwise you wouldn’t be visiting this site today.

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Seminal text from the 60s about organization by visionary architectural theorist Christopher Alexander.