I don't see any obvious reason why design should come to mean pure aesthetics in...

marginalia_nu on Nov 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS

I don't see any obvious reason why design should come to mean pure aesthetics in this particular domain, and even if we do, what word is left to mean actual design work in the traditional sense of the word?

lwhi on Nov 29, 2023 [–]

It doesn't mean pure aesthetics .. the way something looks affects it's affordance.