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Words as Material
- words are one of the most essential yet least appreciated parts of a product. They form the user's mental model, guide users on how to use the product, and can affect their emotional response. Most designers, especially new designers, treat copy as an afterthought, but a good designer knows you must sweat every word as much as you do ever UI box, b... See more
from Learning Product Design by Nick Punt
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- our imaginations shape the experiences we design, and the experiences we design shape our imaginations.
And language is a fundamental tool in architecting both. The details and specificity and intention of it constructs our beliefs about how the world is, and can unlock all of the new ways we might hope it to become.from We Are Not the Only "Who" by Olivia Vagelos
Keely Adler added
- Writing, more visibly and unquestionably today than ever, is inherently networked. It begins and remains connected to its subject, and to everything else, becoming part of it. It acts. It does work. It lives. When we write, we reconfigure the world.
from Why I Write by James Bridle
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- Essays, photographs, videogames, podcasts – these are what we create. They live on mediums, like word documents, film, canvas, software, and audio. On the other side of the canvas or the lens or the microphone are the humans casting their ideas into form. And in between, at the point of contact between the creator and the creation, the human and th... See more
from How we create | linus.coffee by Linus Lee
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- They see writing not merely as a bureaucratic necessity, but as a creative act with the power to accelerate change through persuasion. To fully harness writing's multiplier effect on their potential, they carve out space for empowering expression that goes beyond mandated reports.
from Cultures of writing. by Karina Nguyen
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the quality of an organization's output depends on the degree to which it treats writing as an act to give ideas the space to grow and resonate language is a lens, and our thoughts and perceptions are almost certainly shaped in some way by its conventions and metaphors. It shows us that writing influences our thoughts even as we use it to describe them.
from What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing by Laura Hartenberger
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We hardly notice, because language is water we live in, but words are how we embed meaning, indicate that concepts are juxtaposed or similar or reminiscent, and form our own mental maps of reality. Words are our embeddings, and language is our latent space
from Language Is Our Latent Space by Jon Evans
Keely Adler added
- One of my favorite lines from Walter Ong's classic book, Orality and Literacy, is "Writing heightens consciousness." I think that applies to what you're describing about the nature of conversation. Writing, that is externalizing thought in this quasi permanent symbolic way, makes us more aware of its nature and possibilities than the exchange of ev... See more
from L.M. Sacasas on Instant Messenger Over Instant Messenger by Uri Bram
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