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Worth Your Attention

October 27, 2019

1 minutes to read

  • “While we all benefit immensely from digital services such as Google search, we didn’t sign up to have our behavior cataloged, shaped, and sold.” Powerful writing from economist Mariana Mazzucato.

  • Marc Benioff says we need a new capitalism: “To my fellow business leaders and billionaires, I say that we can no longer wash our hands of our responsibility for what people do with our products. Yes, profits are important, but so is society.”

  • Alan Cooper on fixing a complex system: “You can influence it, but not direct it.”

  • IDEO’s ”not-quite textbook” definition of systems design references architecture as a model.

  • A Twitter thread on what the decentralized web can learn from Wikipedia.

  • Design for Business Impact, a collection of open source case studies from Designer Fund “to help you use design as a strategic business partner at your company.”

  • Sign of the times, pt. 1: The eRosary, a new wearable device from the Vatican “to help you pray the Rosary for peace in the world.” Sign of the times, pt. 2: a cybersecurity vulnerability was discovered shortly after the eRosary’s launch.

  • Notes from my recent visit to Shanghai Disneyland.

  • Video: America Meets Charles & Ray Eames (1956). Includes the introduction of their iconic lounge chair.

  • Paola Antonelli on the role of designers.

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