DESIGN IS SOCIAL

Check out my latest posts over there:  Closing the distance between now and the future Three ways industrial designers are like UX designers Five years on: Reflecting on design and Occupy Wa...

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“ …a little over a century ago, scientists and companies began wondering what would happen if everyday items were connected to electricity or replaced with an electric option. The oven, the ...

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“Designing is not a profession but an attitude.” - László Moholy-Nagy

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“It’s when executives and teams adopt the mindless notion of “it’s not personal, it’s business” that they absolve themselves of their responsibilities as social actors, custodians of ...

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“Technologies are stories we tell ourselves – often unconsciously – about who we are and what we are capable of. By analysing their traces we may divine the progress they are capable of ass...

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Just How Smart Are Smart Machines? : “Clearly, smart machines are advancing at the things they do well at a much faster rate than we humans are. And granted, many workers will need to call on...

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“The most daunting problems aren’t brick and mortar problems, they’re these network and system problems that are threaded together and all intersect in the built environment.” - From th...

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Why Harvard Business School wants students from the humanities : “Scholars of the humanities are comfortable with problems that don’t have just one correct answer… They’re used to manag...

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Muddling Through: How We Learn to Cope with Technological Change : “Social and technological systems do not develop independently; the two evolve together in complex feedback loops, wherein e...

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Peter Blume’s Light of the World (1932) delivers an allegorical critique of modernity and the unquestioning embrace of progress. The four figures are transfixed by the bright light of a fantast...

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“Consider everything an experiment.” - Sister Corita Kent Illustration by Anna Frederick

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christophniemann : > Feature on my work by @creators_project > http://bit.ly/christophart  This work is really hitting me at the moment…

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“The decision attitude operates from the assumption that, in managing, the difficult task to be performed is to select among alternatives. A design attitude assumes, instead, that the real chal...

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“It is important to use your hands. This is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.” — Paul Rand on Design (Illustration by Jessica Wong Cruickshank )

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“Tell me about yourself,’ says a stranger at a party. You can recite your résumé, but what you really want to express, and what the stranger (assuming her interest is genuine) really wants ...

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artistsbooksandmultiples : > David Bowie’s (well used) copy of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s > Oblique Strategies. 

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“To get started, design thinkers focus on five steps, but the first two are the most important. Step 1 is to “empathize” — learn what the real issues are that need to be solved. Next, “...

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“Design has been so thoroughly enfolded in a culture of business and technology that it has a hard time finding an identity of its own APART from business or technology.” - Marc Rettig via ...

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UberHop, a digital "Dollar Van" launches in Seattle and Toronto : “We have seen a huge interest in people needing simpler and lower-cost commutes,” said Ian Black, Uber Canada’s general m...

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Interesting thoughts on anonymity, temporality, and how they affect racist statements in social media : On how the design of the system preferences different modes of expression: > “The d...

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