Being a product person
Summarizing Kola đâs idea from a conversation:
Our methods of critiquing software are shallow. We have reviews, reactions, tutorials, puff-pieces, and clout-chasers. Itâs important to have independent, thorough, and cultural critique, and it should be distributed among those who are building the future (The Paolo Alto Review).
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hypermedia.systemsA Man Bakes Soulful Bread in a Renovated Garage | Sourdough Bread Making in Japan
youtu.bewhat is so interesting about baking bread?
âIâm always thinking about... It reminds me of the first person I was. Kids going crazy about beetle catching, playing in the water, etc. There's no reason for that one. They're just absorbed in it. But as we grow up, we tend to look for reasons and logic for such behaviour.
No, it's not that. [Itâs] that kind of obsessed, sensory, original self. When I'm kneading dough by myself in a place like this, that's what it reminds me of.
So my mental age is getting more and more childish. I'm becoming a social misfit. I'm getting further and further away from organizational people."
Like the Turin shroud, the cloth bears witness and registers the happening for posterity. Once again, the image is static, but the traces left on the âtableclothâ are a reminder of the unique but random social intercourse that took place as the meal advanced in time. To our minds, this more accurately captures the event than the first drawing.... See more
Sarah Wigglesworth âą The Disorder of the Dining Table
Dreamsongs
dreamsongs.comAesthetics are important in creating the appeal of products that underpins their longevity. ,25, In these instances, 'the 'product' would be a fusion of psychological and external 'realities', the user would become a protagonist and co-producer of narrative experience rather than a passive consumer of a product's meaning. The mental interface... See more
Jonathan Alexander Chapman âą Emotionally Durable Design: Sustaining relationships between users and domestic electronic products
If your solution to some problem relies on âIf everyone would just...â then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and theyâre not going to start now.