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  1. Sep 2025
    1. One critique of all of these approaches, however, is that no design, no matter how universal, will equally serve everyone. This is the premise of design justice

      I lean more towards this opinion that design is entirely subjective. No matter how much or how well you implement the techniques discussed in this chapter such as human-centered design or participatory design, there will always be someone out there that does not find the design favorable. Thus, maybe there is no such thing as "good" design and you can only design for a certain demographic.

    1. After some time, I also realized that if design was problem solving, then we all design to some degree.

      The way that I see it is similar to this observation. I feel like design is how a person uses their creativity to solve problems. It's like a bridge between technical problem solving and creative thinking. As someone that comes from a computer science background, working with front-end code for the first time was enlightening because it felt like I was coding and doing an art project at the same time.