Ex-Apple designer: taste isn't born, it's drilled in painfully
floguo · x · 2026-09-22
Ben Hylak recalls his first week at Apple: he showed a design to a coworker who said "it's awful" — then explained exactly why. His takeaway: taste is mostly not innate, but drilled into you painfully over years.
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