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Design’s Lost Generation
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
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Designers are taught that their job is to represent the people who will use our products. We "empathize" with them and put their needs at the center of our decision-making process. As companies scale up, their priorities and incentives become less and less aligned with the people using their products. Bad things happen as we stop solving people pro... See more
Jesse Weaver • Human-Centered Design Dies at Launch
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 model... See more
Navigating the intersection of design and business: a conversation with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky | Figma Blog
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The perils of designing for scale
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long ... See more
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long ... See more
Caio Braga • The aesthetics of our new fictions
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All this is to say is that for design, as for other fields, the road to greatness is often paved with obsession—an immoderate, unjustifiable surplus of care. Doing things that no-one asked for with a love that no-one could reasonably expect.