There’s been a lot of really great discussion around my last post to the AP blog. It’s exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for when I put the post together in the first place. Make sure to check it out.

I walk past this this funeral home/chapel every morning and I always wonder if the clock was included in the sign as a public service or a symbolic gesture? Did they intend to make us contemplate our mortality? In what ways do the functions, features, and interactions we include in our designs communicate something far beyond “intended use”?