Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse never meet in the English version of the strips, but in the German ones they live in the same city. Why is that the case? 

That's actually not quite the case, because in the animated cartoons, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse met and interacted often. But it's true that they had nothing to do with each other in the magazines for many years.

This was because of mail legislation in the US. Comic books could only qualify for a reduced mail rate if they fulfilled certain criteria. For instance, there had to be more than one story in the booklet and the second story had to feature other characters than in the first one. If the same figures appeared in the second story, then the booklets could not be sent with the second-class mail rates, which is why Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck had to appear in separate stories.

When discussing UI approaches at our studio, we tend to treat interactivity as a finite ressource. We want our websites to be calm and feel sturdy. Too many moving parts and too many options in one place deter from achieving this.

Measured interaction may lead to websites that feel like Calm Technology. Enjoyable for their content, heft and gravitas.

C.F.:
- calmtech.com
- „I want my sites to be focused and simple. Just a bunch of plain text files, some images. I want to turn those files into a site […]. I want it to be a calm thing“ – https://www.jon-kyle.com/entries/2017-12-27-sites

"To design is never to create ex nihilo. It is amusing that creationists in America use the word “intelligent design” as a rough substitute for “God the Creator”. They don’t seem to realize the tremendous abyss that exists between creating and designing. The most intelligent designers never start from a tabula rasa. (…)

I do so furthermore, because there is always something slightly superficial in design, something clearly and explicitly transitory, something linked to fashion and thus to shifts in fashions, something tied to tastes and therefore somewhat relative. Designing is the antidote to founding, colonizing, establishing, or breaking with the past. It is an antidote to hubris and to the search for absolute certainty, absolute beginnings, and radical departures."