{"id":1395,"date":"2014-05-15T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:48:32","slug":"design-is-about-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/design-is-about-intent\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Is About Intent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rampantinnovation.com\/2014\/05\/13\/design-is-about-intent\/\">John R. Moran<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Good designers create things with specific uses in mind, which implies making purposeful trade-offs. Another way to abdicate design is refusing to accept those trade-offs; it <em>feels<\/em> better to make something that could be <em>anything for anyone<\/em>. Seth Godin calls this a <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2013\/08\/great-design-getting-people-to-do-what-you-want.html\">design copout<\/a> &#8211; creating something that \u201chelps the user do whatever the user wants to do,\u201d instead of expressing the creator\u2019s intent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John R. Moran: Good designers create things with specific uses in mind, which implies making purposeful trade-offs. Another way to abdicate design is refusing to accept those trade-offs; it feels better to make something that could be anything for anyone. Seth Godin calls this a design copout &#8211; creating something that \u201chelps the user do&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/design-is-about-intent\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}