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Boxes and Arrows investigates the unintended uses of technology.

No matter how hard we try to create designs for certain uses, people will always utilize them in their own way. These unintended uses can be strange, even brilliant. In the end, you have to tip your hat to the ingenuity.

The best design is always bottom-up, not top-down, and if we can find a way to harness these ingenuities we could reach to truly great solutions.

Tags: design, ergonomics, usability, ethnography

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