If we change our principles, models, and rules, but keep our old behaviors in place, as had been the case during prohibition, things not only change according to the new design, they can get much worse.

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"As we have to design for bigger and bigger people, things are going to look like they're made of two-by-fours, " Mr. Kane said.

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"What we are doing is the basic science to design these things, like how big should items be, and how they can stop interfering with each other, " explained Professor Brewster.

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And coders may not become better designers (many developers just wish somebody else would do the design) but they will certainly become more productive and have more confidence in doing things they have never done before.

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"One of the things they said about the Oscars is that they really hoped that I would design something that looked completely unique and completely new and did not look like any other Oscar show they'd ever seen, " McLane said.

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