And so frequently what we try and do is, we take a new problem and map it onto an old problem so that we can use an old solution.

我们经常做的一件事就是，我们处理一个新问题时,把它归结为一个老问题,以便我们能采取老的解决方式。

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Because one of the things that you want to do as a good designer is to basically map a new problem into a known domain.

因为如果你们,想做一个好的设计师,最基本的事情之一就是学会,把没碰到过的问题映射到已经领域中去。

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And then, I had all these dots moving around this beautiful picture of this map, which represented downtown St. Louis and then later represented New York City, which I was amazed by.

接着我让这些点在这张,漂亮的地图上动来动去，让它们展现出圣路易斯市中心的景象,之后表示出了纽约城，这让我很惊奇。

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Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

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