Design Nouveau
Design and the profession of the designer must transform from a specialist function pushing pixels into a universal attitude of resourcefulness and inventiveness. We move beyond asking if designers should code to embracing design as a universal capability. This mindset adapts to any medium and isn’t focused on acquiring technical skills, tools, or ... See more
Design Literacy
Designer Dan Mall likes to write a “design manifesto” at the start of every project, to make sure creative direction and objectives are clearly expressed.
Alla Kholmatova • Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
Design, to take from industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa, is an embodiment of values. And thus products act as a built environment of value assertions. Both by their existence and in the case of many digital technologies - with their every use and app open.
Reggie James • My Hereticon Talk - Spiritual Technology
how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
In the pursuit of utility and significance, design can include making something new, but it can also include unmaking the world as it is, or perhaps remaking it, with parts and systems alike.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
When I use the term design, I refer to the act of intentionally generating something new, something that responds creatively to the specific needs and opportunities of a business, its customers, and its employees. I do not mean implementing yet another off-the-shelf, currently popular program of the week. For this reason, I focus on the overarching
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