The article “Her Code Got Humans On The Moon” centers around the story of Margaret Hamilton. She was an outlier in a field which was very male-dominant at the time, bringing her daughter to the lab and supporting her husband who was going to law school. She contributed to the Apollo mission by implementing human centered peogramming and coding to give space for human error. NASA ignored her at first until the fatal error appeared in Apollo 8 and proved her correct. Her program also landed Apolo 11 safely on the moon by using asynchronus processing.
The article “Emotion&Design: Attractive things work better” caners on the psychologyu of user experiewnce. Usefulness and beaty was thought to be non-compatible. But the affect of beauty on mood showed that the beauty of products can allow some of its flaws to be ignored, making the design more useful. But it all eventually comes down to a balance of the two, because mood can influence the effect of the product. The design needs to adhere to its function. Designes used in high stress environments need to be easy and intuitive, while those made for leisure and pleasure can have more focus on beaty. Ultimately, design shound be centered around human need.