"most web designs out there could surely learn a lot from how Windows 95 solved so many problems by thinking about how target users would deal with their product"
They weren't thinking about it; they were actually testing it with users.
You win the internet today! Too bad you'll be down voted by the type of people who think the value of a college degree is primarily based on its impact on future earnings.
Pick any modern automobile, and you can drive to your destination with ease. Each car maximizes some manner of cost, comfort, materials, efficiency, and safety. Compare a modern car with a 100 year old vehicle, and you will find innovation in absolutely every area. A machine for moving people. You don't need to bring anything with you. You don't need to bring your own chair to sit in, for example - the car already has that.
Now, pick any modern house. You will find almost no innovation compared to a house that is 100 years old. You'll need to bring your own chair, since the house just has empty rooms. Think of all the things you need to do in order to live. Shouldn't the architect of the house take all of these activities into consideration? Le Corbusier uses such examples as -- shouldn't there be a place to store artwork, so that there is always something different on the wall? Shouldn't there be recessed lighting, so there is no dusty chandelier to clean? Shouldn't there be as much natural light as possible, to avoid the need for artificial light in the first place?
Shouldn't the house be a machine for living, just as the car is a machine for driving? Where style is not bolted on, but rather the formal outcome of functionality?
Another phrase he uses that I really like, "the answer to a question well posed," or, "the solution to a problem well posed."
But anyway, I'm rambling. Read "Toward An Architecture." Any book that gets a new translation at almost 100 years old is probably worth a gander.
I'm not sure I believe punishment is even possible.
My personal view is that if someone needs to be separated from society for the good of society or for themselves, it should be done in the most humane and least restrictive way possible.
I actually left a copy of Four Days With Dr Deming [1] lying around in our office, which is not by him, but follows one of his seminars quite closely. I hoped it would inspire my manager to take a peek, but so far I don't think it's happened.
"The best thing for Apple to do is to re-take their position as a leader of software quality before it's too late: consumers know that Apple's hardware is the very best, but more and more their using apps made by Google and Microsoft and Facebook."
