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One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreYou cannot really change the nature of knowledge even if you're shouting from the rooftops. So now I have said this, and many people have confirmed that it is so. And it doesn't mean, as far as I can tell, to the rest of the world. So I've become interested in something else, which is what's it like to be people who know this in a world where
... See moreWe Plants Are Happy Plants • Terence McKenna - Harmless Madness
experience transforms not just what you know but how you know. It doesn't just add information… it creates new perceptual capabilities that algorithms and LLMs can’t (yet) replicate.
In a world increasingly dominated by algorithmic efficiency and machine intelligence, this metamorphosis in perception represents our profession’s most disruptive
... See moreAll of sudden, we weren’t just designing something visual, but we needed to understand human behaviour, to see ourselves in other people’s contexts ( don’t get me started on our empathy phase!!! ), to learn how the decisions we made could affect a company’s bottom line, etc.
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing.... See more
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing.... See more
Jenny Wen • Jenny Wen — Don't trust the (design) process
Humans are nature. There is no such thing as a separate nature. That is, it seems quite silly that humans still say things like: “I love to get out into nature.” Or “I’m really inspired by nature.” Or “we have to get back to nature.” What a weird, common, and deep lapse this is. The divisions we see are made by us and are of a wholly provisional
... See moreThe Internet is paradigmatic magic. It turns experiences from the material world that used to be densely physical… involving licking stamps, say, or winding clocks or driving in cars to shopping centers–into frictionless, weightless, and fantastic abstractions.
The past was never old.
The present, in a fold.
The future, told.
We decided to walk down to the garden; we still had time after all. Upon entering we were immediately taken aback by the casual ruthlessness — everything was tangly and burgeoning tumescence. There were annabelle hydrangeas punctuated by organ pipe cactus. Mammoth pink rhododendrons
... See moreWhen 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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ghosting while drawing, hmm… unlearning so much in the night!
here it is like, to do something well, anything physical at least, your mind has to teach your body how to do it before doing it. it’s weird to me that your mind can know before your body does 🙂 https://t.co/H3MLULbEGC