“The Designers Holy Triangle: Good, Fast and Cheap. Clients must choose only two out of the three options. They can’t have it all. It’s a reality of life, clients must deal with it. Designers must deal with it.”
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“Publishers of newspapers and magazines like to corral readers when they’re young. If you can shape kids’ info-seeking habits when they’re in their teens or twenties, so the thinking goes, you’ll nab them for life… Young people just aren’t interested in reading newspapers and print magazines.”
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“A government agency unveils its new logo. A geometric abstraction, it intrigues some but baffles many. Eventually, the inevitable question: my tax money paid for this? Finally, the handwringing once the exorbitant fee is revealed.”
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“Welcome to the Over the Hill Gang, design bugs that have been around so long that we’ve begun to think of them as folk heros. However, the usual requirement for turning a public enemy into a folk hero is death, not longevity, and so it should be for these worthies: Their executions are long overdue. These bugs aren’t necessarily fatal. The are all at minimum highly irritating, and they have all survived for a minimum of five years or five product release cycles, whichever came first.”
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