[PD-dev] API documentation [ot]

Chris McCormick chris at mccormick.cx
Mon Jan 10 02:02:16 CET 2005


On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:13:01PM +0100, martin pichlmair wrote:
> 
> >>>and: nice working is better than nice looking :)
> >Of course. But nice looking never hurt no one ;) or did it?:
> 
> of course it did. aesthetics sometimes has the tendency to shadow 
> functionality. think of the well known and beautiful philipe starck 
> lemon squeezer: it is a pain (or at least "messy") to use. that is not 
> what i call good design. a big deal of beauty lies in functionality, 
> too.

<http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=95>

(Ignore the very first paragraph - there is something wrong with their
CMS causing it to take an irrelevant first paragraph from a different
article)

Best,

Chris.
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