Software designed to replicate a physical experience will always suck because it replaces the tactility of the real-world with conceptual baggage that doesn’t fit the medium.

I suspect that a disciplined commitment to messy truths over smooth narratives would also breathe life into technology, journalism, and public health efforts that too frequently paper over the complex, many-voiced nature of the worl

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Design As Art
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