Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter
" ―Reese Witherspoon
Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right
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Design of Everyday Things (Revised, Expanded) Fern Brookbanks has wasted farOne of the world's great designers shares his vision of "the fundamental principles of great and meaningful design", that's "even more relevant today than it was when first published" (Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO). Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious even liberating book, lies not in ourselves, but in