I think a large part of why we’re so unhappy with our digital spaces is that the people designing them don’t really see themselves as urban planners. It’s a metaphor that occasionally floats around without much acknowledgment that it has altogether ceased to be a metaphor .
If designers, product managers and engineers are really digital urban planne... See more
If designers, product managers and engineers are really digital urban planne... See more
Rebecca • Architecting digital spaces
Design for Emergence is…
* …open-ended and permissionless. Resulting designs are often surprising, something the original designer could have never imagined.
* …context-adabtable. The end-user can integrate their local or contextual knowledge
* …composable. It provides a basic ‘language and grammar’ that’s easy to learn and employ, but can also exte... See more
* …open-ended and permissionless. Resulting designs are often surprising, something the original designer could have never imagined.
* …context-adabtable. The end-user can integrate their local or contextual knowledge
* …composable. It provides a basic ‘language and grammar’ that’s easy to learn and employ, but can also exte... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios
wnycstudios.orgDesign for emergence is open-ended. There’s no room for surprise in high modern or user-centered design, unless the design is exapted for an unintended use (see “Design Exaptation” in the bottom right quadrant of the 2x2 above). Meanwhile, a key characteristic of design for emergence is that the end design may be something that the original designe... See more