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don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like
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“The aesthetic-usability effect describes a phenomenon in which people perceive more-aesthetic designs as easier to use than less-aesthetic designs—whether they are or not.”
― Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
― Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
“Finally, people have to actually purchase it. It doesn’t matter how good a product is if, in the end, nobody uses it.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“Question everything. I am particularly fond of “stupid” questions. A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“A device is easy to use when the set of possible actions is visible, when the controls and displays exploit natural mappings.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“It is easy to design devices that work well when everything goes as planned. The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
Rosa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rosa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
367 books
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10 friends
110 books
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0 books
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59 books
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3 friends
42 books
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8 friends
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