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The Future Mundane - Core77
Designers imagine things that don’t yet exist, and then they build them, and then the world changes.
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
“Designers are very good at thinking about provocations. After all, they are in the imagination business. They are trained to look at existing systems, spot where stasis lives, and think of ways to make things new. What designers are not so good at, in my humble opinion, is figuring out what happens next, what comes after the provocation.”
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Designers work from what’s called a brief—a challenge presented to them by a client or collaborator with a more or less straightforward goal. It’s a description of what’s required at the end of the collaboration: a building, a playground, or a product, for example.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
I should also reiterate here that my work is absolutely not trying to future-cast a singular vision or offer immediate solutions to the present, which is an impossible and dangerous brand of solutionism that we know well enough already from the technosolutionists in Silicon Valley. Rather, I’m using speculation to expand the atlas of shared underst... See more