What is the safest place to hide a body?
The second page of Google.
Loading...Most accidents are thought to be caused by what is referred to as human error, yet most of them are actually due to design errors rather than errors of human operation.
Source: Universal Principles of Design (Book) by
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It was found, that irrespective of gender, people rate individuals in high face-ism images as being more intelligent, dominant, and ambitious than individuals in low face-ism images.
The idea that we use purchases to flaunt our wealth is known as conspicuous consumption. It’s an accusation that we buy things not so much for purely personal enjoyment as for showing off or “keeping up with the Joneses.”
Since accommodating multiple methods increases the complexity of the system, the number of methods for any given task should be limited to two—one for beginners, and one for experts.
“Affordance” was originally a psychology term used to define the possible actions between a person or animal and the world. Our colleague Donald A. Norman applied the term to the user-experience world in his classic book The Design of Everyday Things. Basically, in design an “affordance” is whatever can be done to an object.
Writers tend to think everything they write is dire or everything they write is golden, often holding both opinions simultaneously and without contradiction.
Source: Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish And Why You Should (Book) by
Loading...Designing products that advertise themselves is a particularly powerful strategy. Steve Jobs and his team realized that seeing others do something makes people more likely to do it themselves. When something is more observable it’s also easier to imitate (as in the case of white Apple earphones or the backlit logo on their computers). Thus a key factor in driving products to catch on is public visibility. If something is built to show, it’s built to grow, or as another famous saying goes: “Monkey see, monkey do”.
Source: Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Book) by
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