I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. -
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I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. -
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.