Personal Notebook
Many of our examples suggest that clarity and excellence in thinking is very much like clarity and excellence in the display of data. When principles of design replicate principles of thought, the act of arranging information becomes an act of insight.
If you look after truth and goodness, Beauty looks after herself.
Painters in the grand style were not concerned with style – they drew with clarity and rigor. Style was born from their work, and just as thought does not think about the sound of its voice nor even the rhythm, but creates them through its act – so they did not … Style must arise naturally from one’s attention to an object and it disappears as the awareness of this attention decreases.
Improving Traffic Flow with Variable Tolls
The section of this article titled The No-Rush Hour in Southern California describes the variable pricing used on the 91 Express Lanes. Prices vary by hour of the day and day of the week (up to $1 per mile during peak times) which provide not only quick access for drivers, but a market-based test for identifying where more capacity is needed.
Fundamentally, humans are all designed in a similar way, so products that make life easier for one group are likely to help others too.
