Speaking towards this goal, the next lesson I’ve come to learn is that imagining the New Internet is not the same as building it. In my time around the archipelago of internet reform there have been no shortage of ambitious ideas. In the process of implementing said ideas, it was revealed time and time again that ambitiousness does not equal... See more
the most painful groups I've had to deal with claim to have no hierarchy or centralised authority, while everyone pretends to not be engaged in a subterranean power struggle between multiple people with competing claims to being the ultimate authority
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and designers are faced with the long-tail problem mentioned earlier.
This is where design for emergence offers an alternative.
Design for Emergence
In design for emergence, the designer assumes that the... See more