“I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
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“I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
The fear of developing “bad” taste, or taste that diverges from the mainstream, can paralyse creatives, stifling their creative growth and leading them to try to borrow or buy taste through bootcamps, curated inspiration documents or sheer are.na-driven osmosis.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
- The problem is one of content. The misconception is that without deep content, design is reduced to pure style, a bag of dubious tricks. In graphic-design circles, form-follows-function is reconfigured as form-follows-content. If content is the source of form, always preceding it and imbuing it with meaning, form without content (as if that were ... See more
Tim Gambell • Fuck Content
But design has also been trivialized, misunderstood and misused. It is routinely confused with styling, and with expensive, uncomfortable chairs or silly shoes with vertiginously high heels.
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
In many cases, neither side is happy with what is getting promoted.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“Designers are very good at thinking about provocations. After all, they are in the imagination business. They are trained to look at existing systems, spot where stasis lives, and think of ways to make things new. What designers are not so good at, in my humble opinion, is figuring out what happens next, what comes after the provocation.”
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
From a designer’s perspective, design systems turn our creative careers into extremely boring jobs. The restrictions imposed by these systems allow little room for personal interpretation of design elements, making designers feel like production monkeys who merely assemble and no longer design. Even the most senior designers at those types of corpo
... See moreIrene Pereyra • Universal Principles of UX: 100 Timeless Strategies to Create Positive Interactions between People and Technology (Rockport Universal)
A good client knows the difference between personal opinion and goal-driven, informed evaluation.
I realize this may be hard for you to hear, but I honestly don’t care whether you like what I do. (Don’t throw the book across the room yet. Stick with me.) Obviously, if you like something, my job is easier. But what I can’t do under any circumstances
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