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Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness
Ingrid Fetell Lee • 2 highlights
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A body of research is emerging that demonstrates a clear link between our surroundings and our mental health.
Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness
While good taste wants things to be simple and normal, joy thrives out on the edges of the bell curve.
Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness
Eugene Wei • Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
“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
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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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What does it take to build something so that’s it’s really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you’ve made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there?
Chris Alexander
I’ve seen firsthand how aesthetics change people’s attitudes and behavior from the outside in.