Lessons on Design

My design journal.

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What design does is take math, something inhuman, back to something human. Design is the human element. And as humans, we tell stories. Math couldn't evolve until we told the stories.

Julie Steele

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O'Reilly Strata Conference: Design Matters More Than Math

(an Oxford-style debate)

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The present should be a beta of the future we want to live in.

Fabio Sergio

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Adam Richardson: The Future of the Web

Eddie Opara: Off-Road Design

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If we all work together on creating value, but if we really keep in mind the values of the work that we do, I think we can change the work that we do. We can change these values, can change the companies we work with, and eventually, together, maybe we can change the world.

Yves Béhar

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Yves Béhar: Designing Objects that Tell Stories

Tim Wendelboe: How to make a great cup of Coffee

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Translation can be a creative, transformative act. Instead of replacing one story with another, we can learn from and revel in the many versions that exist and the many that have yet to be written.

Sheena Iyengar

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Stephen Palmer: Aesthetic Science of Color

Sheena Iyengar: The Art of Choosing 

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Allow the language to suggest or suggest forms for other things.

Daniel Eatock

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Marissa Mayer: Focus on the user and value simplicity

Daniel Eatock: Drawing the perfect circle

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Put hot triggers in the [existing] paths of motivated individuals.

BJ Fogg

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BJ Fogg: Forget Big Changes, Start with Tiny Behaviors

Paolo Peraro: Immersiveness and Choice Design, The Future of Content Creation 

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Reflective competence is when you're able to take the extraordinary skills that you have mastered, and you are able to connect those and relate to other problems outside of that area of mastery—that you're able to teach people, and that you're able to continue to learn. We have to really decide in an active, intentional way, whether or not we want to be in our current stage, which will eventually lead to complacency, or if we want to take an active world view and reach reflective competence. When we're able to translate the very strings of design, we don't have to solve the problems ourselves, but we have to be active in those conversations.

Valerie Casey

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Johanna Blakley: Designers in The Attention Economy

Valerie Casey: The New Normal

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We tend to think of creativity as the work of a soloist. Interestingly, virtually all acts of greatness are the work of an ensemble.

- Keith Yamashita

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Keith Yamashita: The 3 Habits of Great Creative Teams

Christian Bason: Design for Public Sector Innovation

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Great design is about meeting the needs of the five senses.

Jinsop Lee