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Once these granular decisions are made and are incorporated into a larger system, they no longer stand alone. The small-scale justifications must contribute to a scheme larger than themselves. The design responsibility expands to balancing the many individual refined-like responses against the other side of the taste equation, the attempt to create
... See moreKen Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Digital technologies, like wood or concrete, are simply another design material we seek to bend to our will. To manifest and hold these ideas and functions and interaction se... See more
Reggie James • Designing: An Embodiment of Values
different levels of social integration—in other words, the intimacy and scale of human organization and interaction—have different aesthetic values.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
‘The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building, a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows.’12
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Patricia Mou • vol. 49: when picking furniture becomes spiritual
Through algorithmic digital platforms like Instagram, Yelp, and Foursquare, more people around the world are learning to enjoy and seek out similar products and experiences in their physical lives. Through their feeds, they are consuming similar kinds of digital content, no matter where they live, and so their preferences are shaped in that image.
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
struggle cannot be all serious and dutiful, that social change should revolve around what makes life nourishing, delicious, and erotic. “We all need and deserve pleasure,” she writes, and “our social structures must reflect this.”
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
For a structure, a shape, a material choice, a function, or the natural properties of a location.