Design Is How It Works — Applied to Ham Radio

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs, New York Times, 2003

Jobs was pushing back against a shallow idea of design — the notion that a designer’s job is to hand someone a finished product and say make it pretty. True design, in his view, is not decoration applied on top of a thing. It is baked into how the thing behaves, how a person interacts with it, whether it gets out of your way or fights you every step.

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Design Is How It Works — Applied to Ham Radio