Ask someone to define design, and they’ll likely list outputs—buildings, logos, products, apps—or fall back on process platitudes. But these narrow views miss what makes design essential today. Throughout history, new technologies have opened new fields of expression and expanded what's possible. Every time a new... See more

I want us to collectively raise the bar for what we expect from our digital experiences. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but moments to be lived. As we find ourselves spending more and more of our time in the digital world—especially now—we should expect that world to inspire, surprise, and dare I say, even challenge us. We are... See more

Designers become the most important leaders of this new business era (which is why we see people like John Maeda joining firms like Kleiner Perkins, and funds like the Designer Fund emerging with a focus on designer-founded businesses). The success of companies in the Interface Layer will be designer-driven, and the greatest user experience

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Today, every designer faces a similar fork: Do you want to push pixels for the rest of your life—or do you want to change the world with your ideas?

If you choose the latter, the tools are finally here. And the future is up for grabs.

Why does design need to be in the boardroom when it can occasionally run the boardroom? Why aren’t there at least a few more designers running Fortune 500 companies? I don’t have an answer for that, but I do know a couple things: I think of myself maybe as a designer, but I’m not a designer the way most of you are, but I designed our business... See more