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Great software requires a fanatical devotion to beauty: the parts no one is supposed to see should be beautiful too, because unseen details become visible in the aggregate.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

design
What this subject means

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

Craft in the details

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

What Paul Graham actually said

  1. Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
    Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too.

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