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Aesthetic Appeal · Functionality

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There's a measurable cheat here. In a 1995 study of cash machine layouts, people rated the better-looking interfaces as easier to use even when they weren't. The aesthetic-usability effect, and the reason beauty keeps getting away with things.

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