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Crocs and aesthetics in design
I was asked at an interview once if I could name something that was very popular despite not being aesthetically pleasing. I had to think about that for a long time because it’s actually very hard to come up with examples of products that fall into this category.
First, aesthetics are very subjective — two people […]
