designing for feelings
As more and more of us sit with the question of what sits beyond intelligence as our true human premium, it seems that we’re doubling down on that ineffable quality that, as of yet, lies beyond the grasp of the machine: intuition.
It’s an entrance into a new era — a noetic era — coined and elaborated upon by Concept Bureau’s Zach Lamb, a brand... See more
It’s an entrance into a new era — a noetic era — coined and elaborated upon by Concept Bureau’s Zach Lamb, a brand... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
Chat, they noted, can be cozy, intimate, casual, revelatory, expansive; it also has an emotional undercurrent. “Chat’s immediacy emphasizes response, reminding us that we do not simply create and express ourselves in writing, but create and express our relationships,” the editors argued
Anna Wiener • The Age of Chat
thank you @apbenven @nytimes for chatting with us! grateful to be part of the creative renaissance happening in new york and all around the world 🥹 ✨
living by our motto ‘move slow & make things,’ our build out took a long time 😅… we built every table, bench, shelf, and bar surface with hand tools and a whole lot of... See more
instagram.comevery technology is really unfinished until it’s used by people
Rachel Coldicutt • On Understanding Power and Technology
as Dr. Eleni Papadnoikolaki, architect, engineer, and professor of integral design & management at TU Delft points out, “We typically don’t discuss how we can make human lives better. Despite all of the technology around us, we don’t understand how we can improve the quality of human life – only how we can make it more efficient.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Amidst these many “candidates” to transcend modernity and postmodernity, what perhaps distinguishes metamodernism the most regardless of its different schools of thought within it, is its emphasis on an emerging or newly born collective sensibility or “feelings’’ pointing towards a new cultural milieu which reflects the current late stage of global
... See moreAlex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
Playgrounds over Paths
Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.
Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".
Instead of... See more
Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.
Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".
Instead of... See more
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Part of the problem with the Lean Startup mindset is that it sees life and work as an optimization problem. The point is to help people live a good life, not just an efficient life. The goal is human flourishing, not convenience. The goal is a good future, not just a technically advanced future.