## Design and Research
### Design and Research
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#### Metadata
* Author: [[paulgraham.com]]
* Full Title: Design and Research
* Category: #articles
* URL: <http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html>
#### Highlights
* The difference between design and research seems to be a question
of new versus good. Design doesn't have to be new, but it has to
be good. Research doesn't have to be good, but it has to be new.
* The customer is always right in
the sense that the measure of good design is how well it works
for the user. If you make a novel that bores everyone, or a chair
that's horribly uncomfortable to sit in, then you've done a bad
job, period. It's no defense to say that the novel or the chair
is designed according to the most advanced theoretical principles
# Design and Research
## Metadata
- Author: [[paulgraham.com]]
- Full Title: Design and Research
- Category: #articles
- URL: http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html
## Highlights
- The difference between design and research seems to be a question
of new versus good. Design doesn't have to be new, but it has to
be good. Research doesn't have to be good, but it has to be new.
- The customer is always right in
the sense that the measure of good design is how well it works
for the user. If you make a novel that bores everyone, or a chair
that's horribly uncomfortable to sit in, then you've done a bad
job, period. It's no defense to say that the novel or the chair
is designed according to the most advanced theoretical principles