post-design: finding beauty in the invisible, and the changing role of the designer
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I CURRENTLY WORK WITH:
I HAVE WORKED WITH:
STUDIO D RADIODURANS
We’re like management consultants with hands.”
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- KENDRA SHIMMELL (MANAGING DIRECTOR @ COOPER; TOTAL BADASS)
[the designer] accepts the responsibility of his position as liaison linking management, engineering, and the consumer and co-operates with all three.”
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- HENRY DREYFUSS (DESIGNING FOR PEOPLE, 1955)
INTELLIGENCE GATHERING
Searching the known environment for the
condition calling for a decision
1DESIGN
Inventing, developing and analyzing
2CHOICE
Deciding on a particular course
3Decision-Making:
a Designer
Research Synthesis Design/Implementation
I spend time with people trying to understand their problems and then work with them to identify and develop creative solutions - sometimes it's an idea or a model, sometimes it's a process, sometimes it’s technologies…”
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- JASON ULASZEK (UX FOR GOOD)
Funny, everything design/work to me, is in English. The working language is set by the literature, the videos and most of all the tools/programs that we use: and English is the common language. Since moving back [to Sweden], no client has been so small that only Swedes are involved- emails and deliveries are in English.”
- KAJSA, SWEDEN / JOOYOUNG, KOREA
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The proportion of a solution needs to balance with its problem: we don't need a battery-powered pooper scooper to pick up dog poop, and we don't need a car that gets 17 MPG to, well, we don't need that car, period. We have to start balancing our ability to be clever with our ability to be smart. They're two different things.”
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- ALLAN CHOCHINOV (COME ON, YOU GUYS KNOW WHO HE IS)
QUESTION 1:
What do you want to do?
How much do you care about defining it?
I want to be a designer where there was no “design” before. I want to make as little as possible.
For details of the work on the “on-the-go” financial product ecosystem designed for Proximity Design in collaboration with Visa and Studio D, see Proximity’s Post on the concept.
When I went to school, design was a thing I made. Now, it’s more like, ‘How am I thinking about _______ in my work?’”
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- STEVEN EGGERT (DESIGNER & PHOTOGRAPHER)
Mechanical Complexity
Digital Complexity
Social, Cultural & Political Complexity
PRODUCT SOFTWARE
COM
PLEX
ITY
Where user-centered design
dies.
POLICY
QUESTION 2:
On what are you being judged?
By whom are you being measured?
I want to be measured on the outcome of my work, rather than the beauty of the artifacts I create.
“the power of design”
We have to earn our right to practice what we do - most of all
when we practice it on others.
In 1995, you would charge $250,000 for a website, and nobody would bat an eye. Now you can make one for $100.”
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- COLETTE VARDEMAN (UX DIRECTOR @ RACKSPACE)
QUESTION 3:
When should you say no?
What do you stand for?
I want to make myself and my impact as little as possible, and always have people who keep me in check.