Don’t complain; do somethign about it. And I did. It is the 31st of October 2024, fitting—perhaps—that it is Halloween Day and I am one click away from submitting my application for NZ [Dual] Citizenship.
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What should be at the center of Design?
Before today, I had only briefly been made aware of this push to redirect capital-D “Design” away from being a driver for increased consumption and commercial growth under the guise of helping our fellow humans and more towards “Post Anthropocene” Design (ie. where/when “human activities no longer exceed the planetary limits”). How this works in practice will take me much more time to digest, but this paper on “Considering environmental and ethical concerns in the design of interactive products" lays out the arguments and scene quite well and that is simply what I want to recommend you do today… read it.
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Strategy is the lens to distinguish opportunity from distraction
Imagine this… You’re playing the popular board game Settlers of Catan. Your objective is to earn enough victory points to win, and the primary means of doing so is building settlements and cities. These settlements and cities take certain resources to build; resources that you’ll need to collect and save up for. But what should you buy? What should you build? Well… what is your strategy?
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The Discovery to Delivery Model
Little more than a simplified, visual mashup of the Double Diamond design process, a Build-Measure-Learn development loop, and an overly lightweight representation of delivering a solution to market - but that’s the point. I needed to illustrate how a transformation programme could align their next phase of work, and these combined processes seemed to best frame the outcomes we were after...
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Let’s spruce up the blog with a GIF for once whilst a certain music video from ‘99 comes to mind…
Learn to Fly or: How I learned to stop feeling like a failure and love the process
Throw away your list of failed experiments, the projects that didn’t get off the ground, the books or screenplays that failed to sell. Keep the lessons you’ve learned in mind, but recognise that it may simply have been the approach, the pitch, or the conditions at the time that were not optimal for success - the idea may still have legs.
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