in search of good design

One failure mode of this process is if you Ankify*

* I.e., enter into Anki. Also useful are forms such as Ankification etc .

misleading work. Many papers contain wrong or misleading statements, and if you commit such items to memory, you're actively making yourself stupider.

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

― William Morris

Design is enchantment

The TEDx talk I gave at Indiana University in November 2019 was about hope made visible. Hope is our imagined, better reality. It is not a cheap “coping mechanism.” Hope is an illogical faith in what is currently the unreal, the impossible. We do not simply want enchantment; we cannot survive without it.

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Brian Collins

Going back to Thich Nhat Hanh, I believe that writing is part of every design. If you can clearly define what you’re making and articulate its value, the steps to bring it out into the world will go much faster. It’s easy to put pixels together when you’ve already made decisions. And since we work across systems and borders, there’s no better way t... See more

1. Describe your company. What does your company do?

2. What are the objectives? Spell out the goals and the reasons behind them.

Increase sales / promote awareness / expand client base / obtaining data or information / change image / improve competitiveness / reduce cost / raise MSRP / enhance customer experience / change demographic / provide a mor... See more