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Why Do So Many Designs or Products Look The Same?

by danielhitome on 9/8/11, 4:41 AM with 2 comments

• by iamclovin on 9/8/11, 7:13 AM

  Playing devil's advocate, but as a startup founder who's strapped for time and money - isn't the pragmatic choice to be "inspired"[1] by designs which work?

  When big companies have done all the hard work to prove that a certain design works (with millions poured into usability studies and what not), maybe it's ok to piggyback on their coat-tails?

  [1] Obviously there's a difference between inspiration and plagiarism.

• by iamclovin on 9/8/11, 6:55 AM

  Site seems to be down right now?

  Here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.y...