Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “At a fundamental level, all design is governance. We encounter inconveniences every day, both offline and in the apps we use. But it’s not enough to say it’s the result of bad design. It’s also a result of governance decisions made on behalf of the customers during the design process.” …

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “The value of design is the value of creativity, of problem-solving through nimble thinking, and of outside perspective. If production is the ice, then design is the water — made of the same stuff, but inchoate, able to flow into hidden spaces. …

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “By now, it’s no secret that AI will considerably impact the future of branding and design — making us question how we can continue to provide irreplaceable value as designers. Some creatives like Alif Ibrahim from It’s Nice That have suggested it be used to automate mundane and repetitive tasks…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “When the layoffs caught up with me, I was relieved. I had been secretly hoping I would be next because I felt stuck after having worked on the same products for 12 years (6 years on user documentation and another 6 years on UX writing). I had tried looking for…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — What do we really appreciate about design? Why are we here? Why now? It was easier to ignore these questions when designers were growing in their careers and unlocking opportunities everywhere. For many with the privilege of working in Big Tech for the past decade, it was a matter of…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “I ask you, where is the open letter signed by the likes of Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and other wealthy White men, demanding that gun manufacturers cease producing military-grade weapons and urging the government to enact stricter rules and regulations? Where is the petition signed by 10k plus people demanding…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “Time, and the times we are in, have both revealed that I failed to fully acknowledge who we are truly doing it all for. As tons of shocked, sad, and angry posts on LinkedIn about their layoffs suggest, many of my colleagues have also missed, denied, or ignored the bigger…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — “At a fundamental level, all design is governance. We encounter inconveniences every day, both offline and in the apps we use. But it’s not enough to say it’s the result of bad design. It’s also a result of governance decisions made on behalf of the customers during the design process.” …

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. — In science fiction, one of the main indications that the characters are living in the high-tech future is an insanely smart, AI voice assistant. Star Trek’s Enterprise had the omnipresent Computer, and Tony Stark famously traded quips with JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System) before the AI became the…