design (web, ind, etc.)
Worklog ~ TP&C | Are.na
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Design, to take from industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa, is an embodiment of values. And thus products act as a built environment of value assertions. Both by their existence and in the case of many digital technologies - with their every use and app open.
Reggie James • My Hereticon Talk - Spiritual Technology
In The Poetics of Space , Gaston Bachelard argued that “intimate immensity” emerges in places that balance shelter and horizon. Suburbs invert this. Their immensity is vast but inert — horizons without revelation, shelter without intimacy. Taliesin West’s drafting studio, with its pitched roof and open sides, attempts to bridge this divide. But whe... See more
suburbia
john provencher
johnprovencher.com
Designer behind Ben Shelton On graphics. Cool contract work for journalism etc. on here
I’m really proud of the product development process we have shaped at Bellroy. It combines art and science, intuition and logic, frames it with Agile Methodologies, and eschews ego in a way that sparks genuine collaboration.
When we began shaping it, we looked at the great innovation brands and confirmed that they all had strong in-house prototyping
... See moreIn gaming there’s a term called FTUE → first time user experience. Some folks in the broader software world compress this into “onboarding”. But I really like FTUE as an idea because it has the presupposition of valuing the experience, not just getting folks onboarded as quickly as possible.
