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insights on good design + anything else related to design
Jilber Najem and
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Appealingly asymmetrical
"If we turn this wonderful technology we have for knowledge into a weapon for disinformation," he told me, "we are in deep trouble." Why? "Because we won't know what we know, and we won't know who to trust, and we won't know whether we're informed or misinformed. We may become either paranoid and hyper-sceptical, or just apathetic and unmoved. Both... See more
Tom Chatfield • Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'
To this day, when someone wants to reference the dollar bill in a design, it’s noticeable how certain visual cues remain—even when the medium and the level of fidelity are completely different. Leveraging mental models from previously established fictions helps create a feeling of familiarity, which in turn helps people believe in the new, emerging... See more
Caio Braga • The aesthetics of our new fictions
Our interfaces have lost their senses
Our interfaces have lost their senses
Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern
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love this distinction between levels of design. truly higher level designs are designing solutions instead of features, outcomes instead of products. there's no function more important than this.