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You need a good sense of design to judge good design, and there is no correlation, except possibly a negative one, between people's ability to recognize it and their confidence that they can.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

designtaste

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

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

What 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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  1. Paul Graham

    Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb

    You need a good sense of design to judge good design. And there is no correlation, except possibly a negative one, between people's ability to recognize good design and their confidence that they can.

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