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As it turns out, it’s damn hard to design consistent and beautiful things at scale.

Andreas Pihlström • Redesigning Pinterest, Block by Block

By filming the park, Asya hopes to “capture the slow and leisurely rot of a day.”

Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams

When we innovate only in terms of a solutionist framework, Easterling argues in her book Medium Design , we optimize for static outcomes wedded to the status quo of product-market fit. Solutions are one-time fixes, usually implemented by someone else, which break as soon as the context they’re responding to changes (which it does, constantly)

Guy Mackinnon-Little • The Product is the Process: Prototyping Reality with Public Assembly – ZORA ZINE

An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial

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It was then I realised architecture is not about creating structures that are aesthetically pleasing or merely functional: it’s about designing spaces that evoke emotion and resonate with the human spirit. The Farnsworth House may have been a triumph of modernist design, but it lacked the warmth and humanity architecture should embody.

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Berkeley architecture professor Galen Cranz wrote a book called The Chair: Rethinking Body, Culture and Design. (You could walk to the library to pick it up!) It is a great, thorough history of the structure of the chair, the role the class system has had on chair design, and the impact sitting has had on the body.

Katy Bowman • Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says

architectural design.

Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!

Building Small: A Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders, and Great Communities

Jim Heid

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