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Breakthroughs come from questioning the obvious, and the outsider's stupid question is where that power lies.

Drawn from what Don Norman said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

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Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: What you know is hard to unsee: borrow a newcomer's eyes, or your own after time away Who should design software, and how?under our view: Studying users improves what exists; the breakthroughs come from technology and from questioning the obvious

What Don Norman actually said

  1. Don Norman Cognitive scientist and designer
    It is by questioning the obvious that we make great progress. This is where breakthroughs come from. We need to question the obvious, to reformulate our beliefs, and to redefine existing solutions, approaches, and beliefs. That is design thinking.

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