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Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.
Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".
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Kevin Slavin • Design as Participation
Diego Saez Gil: The Zen Tree Hugger - Piece profiling the CEO of Pachama, Diego Saez Gil
“In his own variation of Eat, Pray, Love, Diego went to the Amazon and spent time in a Buddhist Monastery in Thailand. It was in the Amazon that Diego observed deforestation first hand; the scene left an indelible impression.
The pieces of a dreadful puzzle
... See moreGLANCEABLE INFORMATION LEADS TO BEHAVIOR CHANGE
David Rose • Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology
As Manzini’s principles demonstrate, designers should be thinking more and more about the system in which a product or service is being used—all of the physical and cultural interfaces that intersect to create the context of usage. Although system design will become ever more important, products do still exist in Collaborative Consumption. Whether
... See moreRachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
The Vignelli Canon
“The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics rather than ethics. […] How do you make room for humanity, with all its wondrous variations, in a society increasingly driven by metrics, algorithms, and profit? How can ecologically responsible designers consider a pr
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
