Design Lessons from the Culinary World

Over the last three years I’ve taken a bit of interest in the world of cooking and the culinary arts. Cooking is more mature and more ubiquitous than what we know as design. And I think that means it can teach us some lessons that can be valuable in the domain of design. After all, a great meal, like great design, is functional, aesthetic, and context dependent. So here are some of the design lessons I’ve learned from the world of cooking.

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Use the Past to Last

Whatever your field, craft, or work, for a moment consider yourself an archer. Think of everything behind you as the past, and everything in front of you as the future. The arrow that you fire is your end product, the sum of your efforts. You want your arrow to fly as far as possible. You want it to pierce through time, to be a basis for the works of future generations.

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