A design decision without a defensible (and therefore articulable) rationale is not a design decision. It's hocus-pocus.
@doriantaylor If anyone calls anything I do "design" I will blog evil things at them.
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@vgr (ps an engineering decision arguably has stricter constraints on the defensibility of its rationale, and mounds easier to explain.) -
@doriantaylor I tend to think it's either entailment from physics, arbitrariness or symmetry. Good design is authoritative arbitrariness.
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@vgr (e.g.: it's this way because if it isn't this way, it falls down.) -
@doriantaylor my buddy@ahogy thinks all design either symbolizes or is badass. He has whole Christopher-Alexanderish theory about it. - Show replies
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