Their changes to the original design were minute and pointless, tinkering designed only to justify exhorbitant fees.
But often, people send pointless emails designed to keep others in the loop - or to prove that they were "working" at 7 30am.
They resisted trends as easily as they resisted new, but pointless, directions in design.
It would be equally pointless to see urban design as an auto-referential exercise in design, separate or alternative to planning practices, whether it adopts the simplified canons of new urbanism, or any other ready-made model, from the famous and influential ideal-types of the garden city and the radiant city (Fishman 2011).
That said, it did lead to the equally pointless Full Members Cup, designed by the FA so every club could experience the Super Cup sensation, essentially a consolation competition for missing out on a consolation competition, but one that ran on six years after the original consolation competition had ended.
If not, "open design" risks seeming pointless.
Arguing for the need of user involvement in a modern book on product design is as pointless as a discussion about the need to know the rules of arithmetic in an advanced mathematics textbook.
In order to ensure that the public will remain utterly befuddled, more pointless distinctions, mystifying labels, and arbitrary design elements are badly needed.
Such considerations often motivate the choice of one design but they are pointless once a study was executed and the data are in.
But at its worst, "design-art" tempted less-gifted designers — and artists, too — to churn out seemingly pointless, over-priced furniture.
