Clay Shirky: good design requires a balance of arrogance and humility.
The iPod is an unanswerable repudiation to people who don’t believe design is arrogance; MySpace demonstrates that users prize participation, even at the expense of clarity.
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Clay Shirky: good design requires a balance of arrogance and humility.
The iPod is an unanswerable repudiation to people who don’t believe design is arrogance; MySpace demonstrates that users prize participation, even at the expense of clarity.
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