Interesting Snippets from 2013-02-18

• Why We Love Beautiful Things - NYTimes.com

  It should come as no surprise that good design, often in very subtle ways, can have such dramatic effects. After all, bad design works the other way: poorly designed computers can injure your wrists, awkward chairs can strain your back and over-bright lighting and computer screens can fatigue your eyes.

  We think of great design as art, not science, a mysterious gift from the gods, not something that results just from diligent and informed study. But if every designer understood more about the mathematics of attraction, the mechanics of affection, all design — from houses to cellphones to offices and cars — could both look good and be good for you.

• stripe/jquery.payment · GitHub

  A general purpose library for building credit card forms, validating inputs and formatting numbers.

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