Dominiek web, technology and startups
about 1 year ago
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What's wrong with this Shampoo design?

In the hotel I’m staying at now there are the usual little soap items. They claim to be Italian and therefore they have the text in both Italian and English:

Apart from the bad coloring, there is an obvious flaw in the most right one (the Shampoo): it says shampoo twice. Now, I know I’m really nitpicking this one thing and I might be wrong, but I really think the philosophy behind this is wrong. The current shift to value in attention requires us to limit the amount of information we display. That means radically stripping out all the unnecessary information. Also, the age of autistically organizing things into hierarchies if over. We contextualize now, so shampoo is just shampoo – not shampoo:shampoo because ‘we HAVE to show both languages’.

Perhaps I’m totally wrong and my mind is just corrupted with the programming heuristic of Don’t Repeat Yourself.

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I'm a 22 year old Web Developer who is currently engaged in RubyOnRails consulting. Apart from obsessing about many technology related topics, I enjoy traveling and international life. In the coming months I intend to boost up my entrepreneurial activities, so stay tuned!

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