OP here: I really enjoyed learning about the history of industrial design for this.
I wanted to understand the parallels between software engineering and industrial design (well, chairmaking) through the Industrial Revolution. Matthew Bird's [History of Industrial Design series][1] was fantastic, especially this quote [from John Ruskin][2]:
> Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly, to make many pins in a day; but if we could only see with what crystal sand their points were polished,—sand of human soul, much to be magnified before it can be discerned for what it is — we should think there might be some loss in it also.
I wanted to understand the parallels between software engineering and industrial design (well, chairmaking) through the Industrial Revolution. Matthew Bird's [History of Industrial Design series][1] was fantastic, especially this quote [from John Ruskin][2]:
> Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly, to make many pins in a day; but if we could only see with what crystal sand their points were polished,—sand of human soul, much to be magnified before it can be discerned for what it is — we should think there might be some loss in it also.
I hope you enjoy!
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEANvcdpJW0lUKVPJ_8ee... [2]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30755/30755-h/30755-h.htm