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Built for the Room, Not for the People: Good design taste is someone else's standard
Modern product design is increasingly shaped by stakeholder expectations, market conformity, and AI-driven speed rather than genuine creative vision, pushing designers to suppress personal and culturally rooted aesthetics in favor of a “global” style that signals credibility but often lacks authenticity. While true innovation comes from bold, distinctive choices that challenge norms, organizational inertia and risk aversion mean designers often feel like outsiders in their own work, balancing between fitting in and quietly reintroducing their own taste to keep designs meaningful.
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