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“When the number of cases doubles every three days, we quickly find ourselves in a world where the qualitative nature of the problems and their solutions change several times each week.” How shifts in complexity call for new conceptual frameworks.
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Possible impacts of the pandemic on our (physical) office spaces.
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The New York Times has a highly informative article about how coronavirus mutates and spreads. (I’m sharing it here because of how clearly it explains a complex subject through mindful use of structure, text, and visuals.)
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Finding Our Way, a new podcast from Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz about “navigating the opportunities and challenges of design leadership.”
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A reminder of one of design’s strategic functions: making the company’s vision tangible.
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A list of signals “that help us piece together a picture of today and provide glimpses of possible futures.” (H/t Andy Budd.)
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Want to be a more effective designer? Learn to speak the language of internal stakeholders.
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Individual/collaborative performance videos strike me as an emergent art form that’s being boosted by the pandemic. This take on Maurice Ravel’s Bolero is a good example.
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The first season of Abstract, Netflix’s documentary series about design, is available to stream for free on YouTube.
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In observance of his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly shared a great list of 68 bits of unsolicited advice. Worth reading and internalizing!