Work outside your design team When you accept that design happens almost everywhere in your organization, you have to take responsibility for it. Your app is slow? Go sit with your engineering team. Your marketing team is poorly communicating your product to future customers? You’d better offer to work with them on the problem. Yes, doing design with everyone at... More
Andrea Zittel: These things I know for sure 1. It is a human trait to want to organize things into categories. Inventing categories creates an illusion that there is an overriding rationale in the way that the world works. 2. Surfaces that are “easy to clean” also show dirt more. In reality, a surface that camouflages dirt is much more practical than one... More
The egg (Andy Weir) You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.... More
Fools “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain; but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”— Dale Carnegie More
Privacy We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model... More
