Design is personal
Despite the self-congratulatory TEDness of the venue, I found myself about 50% happier after watching Stefan Sagmeister’s 2004 talk “Yes, Design Can Make You Happy”:
I found this from the Signal vs. Noise post, so by now most of the rest of the world is hip to it as well. My main praises are not for the design choices he holds as examples, though there are some nice finds in there. What I truly connected with is the way he presents his approach in such an intensely personal fashion, and most importantly how his design philosophy derives from the close observations he makes about himself and his own life.