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If the great philosophers had been user interface designers (pt. 1, Descartes)

October 31st, 2007 | Permanent link

Rene Descartes made the feeds briefly when he coined “Cogito, ergo sum” in his review of Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. Alienated clients left and right by insisting on grounding his design-decisions on human reason alone, never once condescending to look at results from user testing.
In later life, turned entirely to the more arcane [...]