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Carly Ayres

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Oct 23, 2015

Is there such a thing as objectively good design? #poptech

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Andy Matuschak

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Oct 23, 2015

@carlyayres

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I believe so! An argument I find persuasive:

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Design & Compromise

In a chapter on political systems in his remarkable book The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch notes that ...compromises -amalgams of the policies of the contributors- have an undeservedly high...

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Oct 23, 2015

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@carlyayres

do you think there can be objectively good design without context? is cueniform objectively good?

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Andy Matuschak

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@carlyayres

No: a design solves a problem; it can’t be judged separately from the putative problem.

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so Objectively Good Design is a the longest-lived solution for a given problem until a better OGD comes around

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Andy Matuschak

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Oct 23, 2015

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@carlyayres

Yes, just like Popperian scientific epistemology.

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