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Good design solves the right problem; a lot of bad design is industrious but misguided.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

Subjectdesign

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

On the topicWhat makes a design good?under our view: Good design solves the right problem for real people, and whether it did can be told

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What Paul Graham actually said

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  1. Paul Graham

    Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb

    Good design solves the right problem. The typical stove has four burners arranged in a square, and a dial to control each. How do you arrange the dials? The simplest answer is to put them in a row. But this is a simple answer to the wrong question.

    Where this was said

    ↗Taste for Makerspaulgraham.com

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