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by latexr 338 days ago
That’s far from exclusive to interior design. Any designer in every discipline will be familiar with that notion, regardless of it being interior design, industrial design, graphic design, …

“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” — Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things (1988)

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It's the origin of 99 Percent Invisible's name: https://99percentinvisible.org/

I was about to recommend an episode or two, but it's an institution at this point. If you have a reasoned opinion about flags, there's a reasonably good chance it's because you saw or heard Roman Mars talk about vexillology. https://www.ted.com/talks/roman_mars_why_city_flags_may_be_t...

Is it true? I think people are very vocal about good design (interior or not). If they are not loudly loving your design, then try again.