The Aesthetics and Psychology of Stuff

18May07

Today, we generally acknowledge that perhaps the most meaningful of all possible experiences come from serendipity — finding greatness in the least likely of places. Discovering the profound in the prosaic, as a friend and colleague puts it, is the rarest of pleasures.
This notion has tremendous implications for the design of everything around us. A [...]

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The Stories We Tell, And What They Say About Us

09May07

If you would seek to really understand people, you must first understand the stories they tell in the exact words they use to tell them. This seems obvious — metaphors and word choice reflect the cognitive frames of a person — but this is actually a profound insight, and one that didn’t take hold until [...]

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