Worth Your Attention

“In 2020, we need to leverage our visualization skills to make sense of the bigger picture of a product’s information environment — rather than solely focusing on its interface.” The State of UX in 2020.
Khoi Vinh writing in Adobe’s (his employer) blog: “Understanding the gap between how designers see our work and how society values it will determine how we practice our craft for the next several decades—at least. It’s the difference between accepting design as a small, insular culture and it living up to its promise as something that can change the human experience.”
“The tactical sloth of agile yields significant advantages in strategic speed.” Alan Cooper on agile software development.
“Creatures that saw all of reality as it is were never more fit than creatures that saw none of reality and were just tuned to the fitness payoffs.” A great podcast about how we (mis)perceive reality.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced an initiative to develop a decentralized social media standard. (Twitter would become a client of this standard.)
Brad Frost’s design system governance process.
Laura Klein’s framework for making better product decisions.
An important distinction in software design: the difference between abstraction and implementation.
There’s a new book out on the design and construction of Disneyland. Here are my notes.
From our friends at Dubberly Design Office, an interactive social graph that shows how cybernetics connects computing, the counterculture, and design.

Worth Your Attention

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