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What we understand as "beautiful" is based in cultural traditions. In America, women want to appear tanned, and will use any variety of chemicals to achieve a darker complexion. In the Philippines, they want to appear pale, and will use any manner of chemicals to achieve a lighter complexion. It's not enough to say, "make it beautiful", you have to understand on a fundamental level (and you don't understand something on a fundamental level if you can't articulate it) what that beauty means for your consumers.


Some things, such as shiny white boxes from Apple, seem to have universal appeal.


Except that they don't, I can't think of a single thing that has truly universal appeal, consider apple's market share when you're making the claim that they do. I even use a fair few of their products and don't find them "beautiful" by any stretch of the imagination, merely kinda sort functional.




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