But sometimes the line between good and bad design can mean life or death. “My students sometimes wonder, is this a career where lives are on the line?” Stebeleski says.

Bad design, she pointed out, “has just as much, if not more importance than the good variety, and it is expensive in terms of time, emotion, effort and energy to remedy.” ...

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