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Usability applied to life<\/h3>\n

Interesting. A parallell between us people and computers. I got to it thorough webword<\/a>. My commment? The inspiration for design comes from nature. Birds inspired us to design air-planes, and i think our brains should have been the inspiration for designing computers & software.
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