Is it a product or a performance?
And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives an
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Apps have become an intimate part of our everyday lives. We wake up with them, eat with them, pee with them, and go to bed with them. Software has eaten the world, and many seem ready to hail this as the golden age of Design
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone you love is rewardi... See more
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"It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done, and then try to bring those things into what you are doing."
M.G. Siegler • When Steve Jobs Called the Design World to Arms
How can we reverse engineer the warm and fuzzy feeling people get when they experience your product, service, and community?
Greg Isenberg • Community = culture
This month’s Frame: Using Bernard Stiegler’s pharmacological approach to heal from digital fatigue
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