"When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manualâ€”even a one-word manualâ€”then it is a failure, poorly designed."

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Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 4, p. 87; regarding doors labeled "Push" and "Pull", 2002.

Donald A. Norman

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“Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.”
“If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.”

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