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Austin White

Valeria -
Great post on design. Good design is so important - great design I think should not even feel like an effort was made, it should be natural

Steve Woodruff

VM - it seems to me that design starts with a vision - there needs to be a picture in the mind of whomever is leading the charge, and a determination to "get there." Many drift with the tide or just accept what is, but a designer of anything (life, website, product) is always seeing what is not yet.

jkh

bright thoughts oby tp.
here are my favourites:


**Beware of engineers! (Said with affection—I am one.) They (we!) are reductionists—design is about wholes. (!!!!!)

**Beware of MBAs (Said with no affection, even though I am one.) Analysis is imperative—but also reductionist. (!!!!!) In "real life," emotion rules—but not at the B-schools!
**"Six Sigma" can be a deadly enemy. (Tighten down too hard—bye bye creativity-spontaneity.)
...
**And don't ignore the subway map. (Think London.)
**Or the public toilets. (Think Paris.)

Valeria Maltoni

@Austin - I like the play off your name in the blog, very inventive! It sounds like you don't follow the herd. The best designs are the simplest.

@Steve - what a nice way of putting it, thank you. One of my early teachers when describing the work of Michelangelo, used to say that he could feel the form inside the marble. Then he would just carve out the excess material. That is vision.

@Jens - I thought you might find several nuggets there. Tom Peters can be so incisive with his passion. He's not afraid to use exclamation points, all caps, bolds, and he does so like a maestro.

jkh

"...and he does so like a maestro."
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yes he does.

...found several. - thanks to your lead.

Jé Maverick

I don't have anything meaningful to add to the conversation, but I love that description of Michelangelo 's vision so much that I needed to say so. Thanks, Valeria. :)

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