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 …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 8, 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 …
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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (June 1, 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 …
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24 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 25, 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 …
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25+ Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 18, 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 …
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26 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 11, 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 …
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29 Weird and Wacky Oddities Found at Garage Sales
I love a good bargain find. You’ll often see me elbow-deep in the bins at the Goodwill, shoveling through mountains of stuff to find some gold. I’ll spend all day there rifling through stuff that other people have discarded. One man’s trash, they say, is another man’s treasure, and I find that to be universally …
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Ex-graphic design employee deletes all their work after they regularly worked 60 hr/week with no overtime, had their work stolen: ‘I just nuked all my design assets’
When you’re an entry-level employee, it can feel like you have little to no control over what kind of job you’re going to get. The job market is so tough when you’re starting out that it feels like you have to take any job you can get. Even if that job means long hours and …
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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (May 4, 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 …
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27 Baffling Design Choices Found in the Wild (April 27, 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 …
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