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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Christopher Alexander • 4 highlights
amazon.comWhen you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more
Elan Ullendorff • Be specific
Design is The What. What should you be building? What’s the right opportunity to go after? What’s the right problem to solve? Asking the right question is half the answer. Design is not about the drapes or the drop shadows. Design is a messy, holistic, human-centric process for solving problems—not just stylistic problems, but problems of all manner and level of importance.
Loving how simple this image is from @sari’s presentation on Sublime. Contrasting it with my equivalent personal content strategy pipeline, I’m forcibly reminded of that YouTube parody “If Microsoft designed the iPod packaging”
