Seedling
On designing for humans
Humans are predisposed to want things that they don’t really want. The making of things should account for this, by ensuring that the value of what we make aligns with the genuine wants of humans.
A lot of our human needs live in the word balance.
We have to be entertained, but not so much that it takes away from our lived lives.
We want to indulge, but we don’t want to eat away our health.
We want to belong, but we don’t want to forgo our individuality.
We have to be disciplined and live balanced lives, but we also need space to be our faulty human selves.
In the making of things, we should recognize the need for balance.
At different times, societies need different impulses as well.