Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.
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