Design is all around us. It’s literally everywhere we look. Everything man-made was designed by somebody somewhere at some point in time. It sounds facile to say this, but it’s easy to forget. You take the shape of a pencil for granted. A pencil has been a pencil for as long as you’ve been alive …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 15, 2025)

Sometimes people make choices that we cannot understand. This is the nature of being a human. You can never truly know what goes on in somebody else’s head. You might have empathy for them and try your best to understand, but you can never fully know. Because you haven’t had the same life experiences, you …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 8, 2025)

It’s rare that something goes off without a hitch. You can prepare all you want for a certain project or event but inevitably something will go wrong. If you’re planning a wedding, at least one bridesmaid is going to forget her shoes and someone will have to make a last-minute sprint to DSW. If you’re …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 1, 2025)

As much as us control freaks might like it, we can’t be in control of everything. Some things are just out of our reach. Try as we might to white-knuckle grip the situation, sometime a white-knuckle grip only means that it will shatter in our fist. If you try too hard to make something go …
Seguir leyendo 24 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 25, 2025)

Sometimes you have no choice but to say «screw it.» There are so many areas of our lives where we have to put in a lot of effort. You probably put in a lot of effort at your job, making sure you arrive on time, ready to give it your all and help others along …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 18, 2025)

Other people’s intentions can often elude us. Try as we might, we will never truly know what it’s like to live in somebody else’s brain. We can exercise empathy and try to understand someone through the lens of our own lives, but we will never have had the same life experience that they have.  Even …
Seguir leyendo 26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 11, 2025)

It’s so hard to make something work correctly. If you’ve ever made anything, you know this. There are a million decisions that have to go into each element of whatever it is that you’re making, and they all have to work together. If you’ve ever furnished an apartment you know this to be true. Or …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 4, 2025)

Comedy is all about intention. If someone makes you laugh on purpose, you start to respect them. If someone makes you laugh by accident, it may make you look at them a little differently. And if someone can do either of those things on a regular basis, you start to want them around more and …
Seguir leyendo 27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (April 27, 2025)

You can learn a lot from failing at something. It’s kind of the whole deal with babies. They just try stuff and fail until they don’t fail and then they store that information in their brains. It’s why they’re always putting stuff in their mouths.  Adults kind of do this too, but in a different …
Seguir leyendo 28 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (April 20, 2025)