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Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
Exactly how we collaborated mattered, and for us on the Purple project, it reduced to a basic idea: We showed demos to each other. Every major feature on the iPhone started as a demo, and for a demo to be useful to us, it had to be concrete and specific.
Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Building on a corporate network was like building on a broken foundation. The term of art to describe this hazard of the new era: platform risk.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
The democratization of process and proliferation of tools enable hundreds of small, local design decisions to have an immediate and outsized impact. When something works in one place, it can be quickly copied, tailored, and applied in other contexts.
Zack Bryant • Moral Design — Journey Group
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
This is a textbook example of the power of platforms; consider an operating system like Windows: any number of applications can run on any number of computers thanks to there being an abstraction layer in the middle: