The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.

AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.

Tips for enterprise UX. If we do this at CMD, this could be interesting

Interesting observation that the idea and the form of a quick sketch changes.

Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.

Very, very nice article about the independent web. For my students.

Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make (hone) their own tools. Some quotes:

It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities.

Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools.

After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers.

Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.

Productivity did not go up

One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.

A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.

Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

Fieldsets and what they do

When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link

A nice introduction to testing with voice over on a Mac.

Brilliant video showing the three shapes of stories.

A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.

Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.

The author writes about junktime, which I think is an even higher step from kairos -> chronos -> junktime. Who was it again who said that Kairos is village life, Chronos is city life, controlled by the clock, and then Junktime might be online life, controlled by ever presence.

The fascinating idea that time moved slower in right after the big bang

Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.

Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom

Excellent, excellent intelligent rant.