moments spotted
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i just heard this at a cafe:
"The brain is rarely in the present, but the heart is always in the present because it’s beating. When we listen to our heart, we turn our attention back to the present moment.”
Wow.
the state of design
doing it like you don't know how, talking like you don't read books, playing dumb. i believe the pretension of being an anti-intellectual is a global trend in design. i think this may be a knee-jerk response to the overwhelming onslaught of information constantly available to us, and a withdrawal, (whether sincere or not) and a b
... See moreYou and Your Research - Richard Hamming (Bell Communications Research Colloquium, 1986)
Linkas part of a 2003 New York Times interview discussing the iPod, Steve drove his point home: Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it [a product] looks like. People think it’s this veneer—that the designers are handed this box and told, “Make it look good!” That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and fe
... See moreKen Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
When we say we're going to do something based on look and not touch, we forget the beauty of a lot of really well-designed tools, which is the tool dissolves when you use it and you focus on the task and not the tool. With a really well-designed hammer, you focus on the nail, not the hammer.
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Calm Tech Institute's principles for product design:
Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention.
Technology should inform and create calm.
Technology should make use of the periphery.
Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity.
Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak.
Technology
between the crackle of AM radio and the first whispers of the LLM, we lived in a world sized for human hands.
The Last Human Century
While the world obsesses over accumulating options, the impactful are busy eliminating them, channeling their finite energy toward the few things that compound over time.
So ask yourself: What are you obsessed with? What door are you afraid to close? And what might happen if you did?
So ask yourself: What are you obsessed with? What door are you afraid to close? And what might happen if you did?