Comments on: Design as a compromise http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/12/05/design-as-a-compromise/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:34:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Tilda Blanchett http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/12/05/design-as-a-compromise/#comment-449846 Tilda Blanchett Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:58:43 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/12/05/design-as-a-compromise/#comment-449846 I haven't read the book, but based on the quote I don't think your interpretation of design as compromise is so on the mark. The quote is pretty straight up about there being a right and a wrong, and you fall on either side of that. Not much meeting in the middle alluded to. In general, however, I do see how the idea of compromise is significant in design. Frictionless transmission or access to functionality is so rare. That's where insight, innovation, creativity, and craft are so important in design. I haven’t read the book, but based on the quote I don’t think your interpretation of design as compromise is so on the mark. The quote is pretty straight up about there being a right and a wrong, and you fall on either side of that. Not much meeting in the middle alluded to.

In general, however, I do see how the idea of compromise is significant in design. Frictionless transmission or access to functionality is so rare. That’s where insight, innovation, creativity, and craft are so important in design.

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