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Everything is made-up and nothing has to be the way it is. Everything is this because people decide this is.
Ever read "The design of everyday things" by Don Norman?
Drove this idea home in incredibly detailed and interesting ways.
@RussSharek I haven't, but it looks like a good primer for designers to consider.
I did a lot of sociology and sociolinguistics in school. Everything that is the world around and within us is a matter of choice and design and we always have the power to alter those designs.
And the book is excellent for designers and thinkers alike. I read it back when I was working as a sculptor and jeweler. As applicable there as it was to advertising, ergonomics, and design in general.
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Sadly we get entrenched in those ideas and forget. I think it's a side artifact of our being creatures that learn by mimicking and modelling. We get into a pattern, assume it's the one true way and it becomes a rut.