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while technology is an exhilarating enabler, it can be an exasperating disabler as well

Our society, systems, and artifacts require active engagement in care, attention and feeling—the business value may not be immediately apparent. But the fulfillment from living a meaningful life is the ROE (Return On Emotion). A certain kind of more is always better than less—more care, more love, and more meaningful actions.

Art—a reason to live—i is tempered with design—the clarity of message.
Achieving clarity isn’t difficult. (...) The true challenge is achieving confort.

The best art makes your head spin with questions. Perhaps this is the fundamental distinction between pure art and pure design. While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.

Acknowledging the existence of aichaku in our built environment helps us to aspire to design artifacts that people will feel for, care for, and own for a lifetime.

Aichaku is the Japanese term for the sense of attachment one can feel for an artifact.When written by its two kanji characters,you can see that the first character means “love” and the second one means “fit”.Love-fit describes a deeper kind of emotional attachment that a person can feel for an object.It is a kind of symbiotic love for an object that deserves attention not for what it does, but for what it is

Ample incorporation of empty space removes the need for a specific bridge between foreground and background because the navigation is implicit —you can’t get lost.
Complexity implies the feeling of being lost; simplicity implies the feeling of being found.

you can either brighten a single point with laser precision, or else use the same light to illuminate everything around you.

Variety tends to keep our attention when the rhythm of difference captivates.

It is necessary to advertise qualities that cannot be conveyed implicitly, especially when the message of embodiment simply tells the truth.