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collecting & contributing // design engineer
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a website can be anything. doesn’t (and probably shouldn’t) be an archive of your complete works. that’s going to be dead the moment you publish. a website, or anything interactive, is inherently unfinished.
it’s imperfect… maybe sometimes it even has a few bugs. but that’s the beauty of it. websites are living, temporal spaces.
These things I know for sure
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It is a human trait to organize things into categories. Inventing categories creates an illusion that there is an overriding rationale in the way that the world works.
Surfaces that are "easy to clean" also show dirt more. In reality a surface that camouflages dirt is much more practical than one that is easy to
as 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?
Willem Van Lancker • Option Rot
The journey of curation requires experimentation, and experimentation takes time. Each discovery reveals your preferences and how they fit together to comprise personal style and taste.
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources ... See more
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources ... See more
Design Literacy
A project was said to “ask questions about” or “draw attention to” a topic, without any obligation to formulate conclusions or provide an easily digestible message.
With hindsight, we can see that the nonlinearity of digital hypertext and poststructuralism cut two ways: On the one hand, it helped to dismantle master narratives; on the other, it prod
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