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It's been years since I read Design of Everyday Things, but the lingering idea I've taken away is that beautiful products also work well. i.e. beauty and functi
by treerock 11y ago
It's been years since I read Design of Everyday Things, but the lingering idea I've taken away is that beautiful products also work well. i.e. beauty and functionality are linked.
Doesn't seem to match up with his statement "the fonts are pleasant to the eye, but difficult to read." Especially for something like a font, where the aesthetic and the utility are so difficult to separate.
- TuringTest 11y ago"Beautiful products work well" means that beauty adds a plus to usage, not that it's the only factor. An ugly but functional device will work worse than an equivalent device which is also pretty and fun. But if the pretty device has dreadful usability, it won't work well no matter how pretty you find it. As for fonts, the prettiest and ornate ones are often the prettiest, yet more difficult to parse. https://www.google.com/search?q=fancy+font https://www.google.com/search?q=fancy+font