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the thing that seems to be perennially hard for designers to communicate is what called "philosophical compromise", and like absolutely yes it is philosophical compromise, with real material consequences like it isn't just some aesthetic preference; it affects outcomes
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put it like this: say you're an engineer working on a bridge and the client says take out half the suspension cables — no engineer would put their stamp on that now what if the client says to the architect: "we'll build the bridge, but not all the way to the other side"
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the protestations of designers being dismissable as the whinging over the personal aesthetic preferences of an effete class of trust fund children is not helped by the fact that the design field is in fact populated by an effete class of trust fund children
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i remember seeing some article about social networks that a minority can look like a majority if they are in the right places (eg central or spanning) in the network; i probably have it in zotero but don't feel like scouring for it
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