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knowledge they already have.”
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Instead of merely emphasizing the puta-
tive sublimity of the digital, designers might instead focus on creating tools
that have “clear value for people in the activities they already carry out.”
In either case, the integration of such technologies in the workplace is
likely to proceed more smoothly. But there might be even more significant
payoffs to such an engagement with materiality: “in our experience, taking
inspiration from the way people currently do things has typically allowed
us . . . to find new inspiration and develop highly original concepts. .
. .
To look at paper use as a design resource, therefore, clearly does not mean
doing design through mimicking paper.”
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In the next chapter, I broadly apply this insight to the design of cryp-
tographic analogues in general and offer examples of how the material
world might serve as a resource in the fulfillment of cryptographic design
goals.
