“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”- Mister Rogers Design can be found everywhere. Design decisions are made with...
When the future is always present by default In the past few years more ethical, systemic and future thinking mindsets have gained the attention of the masses, and not only the designers. We have come to acknowledge that our decisions make an impact on the world and...
When I first joined Apple in 2006 I heard a story about a design review meeting involving my manager and Steve Jobs. It went like this: My manager was presenting a new design to Steve and the response was, shall we say, lukewarm. Not a flat refusal but not a...
In 2019 a photo was uploaded on a Reddit community that depicted a graffiti on a wall that read in Chinese characters: “We can’t return to normal because the normal we had was precisely the problem”. That message was written presumably during the Hong Kong unrests but...