Valerie

Designing Friction – a call for friction in digital culture – explores the concept of consciously reintroducing obstacles and resistance in our online interactions to foster human connections. It can be seen as a new design paradigm not focussing on seamless experiences but on human connection. What does it mean to be human?”

Embracing friction: A c

To survive and thrive you need to have the conviction to create things your are proud of with people you love and in a way that allows you to have a meaningful life however you determine that. Anything more than that is not just “bonus,” it can actually lead to your undoing. I don’t mean financial ruin, I mean that you may loose that independence a

Move slow and mend things. If we take the time to care, if we’re methodical and we resist the urge to rush, we can make things better for our future selves and for others. If “move fast and break things” is Silicon Valley’s rallying cry, then the flip-side is “move slow and mend things”.

The perfect site doesn’t exist

To be successful (just my views only here) you will need to:

Know who you are, what you want to say. You need to say it verbally and visually with clarity, and when you fuck up (because you will) you need to be able to explain why it happened and learn from it and move on. Quickly. People will forgive you because you are human. Human is good.

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I want to explore what feels like the transcendent power of beauty to change our lives. That was the motivating question behind Beautiful World, Where Are You—the title sums it up. I have spoken about my ideological commitments—how I look at the contemporary world through a Marxist lens and through the lens of climate change, and how I feel like we

So-called perfection also plays on our subconscious by eliminating the motivation to improve. The challenges of life are illuminated by the constant pursuit of improvement, as we strive to evolve ourselves and the world around us toward a better future. While we strive for perfection, the joy of its attainment is often followed by a vast emptiness