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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

” ~Charles Mingus
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Don Norman on the relation between happiness and creativity

In this talk from 2003 at the TED conference, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion. He looks at design that makes people happy, and the relationship between happiness and creativity.

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