Marisa Chan
@designteamofone
Marisa Chan
But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find most meaningful and fulfilling. The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and inter
... See moreI evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as forms of resistance. In today's highly commercialised web of multinational corporations, proprietary applications, read-only devices, search algorithms, Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG editors, and digital publishers it becomes an increasingly radical act to hand-code and self... See more
J. R. Carpenter • J. R. CARPENTER || a Handmade Web
Laguna~B | Glassware | Laguna~B (Magazine) | Essay | There is no ‘Nice’ Web. Yet by Bri Griffin
lagunab.com
When we create safe spaces, time away from screens, ‘Yes, and’ spaces, working with other people over tasks that facilitate connection and craft a narrative that offers a hopeful take on the future, the world can start to come back into focus.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
Sitting with your own and ... See more
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaqsubstack.com
I would advise, as an industry, to pull back from this obsession with user wants and user needs and instead to design for fun. What you want your players to feel, what is the emotional path for them to get there, and how does your software—your business product, if that's what you're building—take them along the path?
