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posted on 2024-07-11, 15:21 authored by Per Mollerup
After my company completed a job in Estonia, we celebrated at an expensive restaurant in Tallinn. When I wanted to relieve myself, I left the table and sought the facilities next to the cloakroom. There, I found two doors, each one marked by an equilateral triangle. One triangle rested on a flat side with the point up, while the other stood on a point, flat side up. The latter triangle reminded me of something female. Using logical inference, I decided to enter the room marked with the point-up resting triangle. I soon discovered my mistake, left the room with the resting triangle and entered the room with the standing triangle. [Introduction]

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1752-8445

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Design Research Quarterly

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2

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1

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8 pp

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Design Research Society

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Copyright © 2007 Per Mollerup. This an open access article published under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.

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